To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 1 – 11 – Flashcards
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What is the name of the Finch family's homestead?
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Finches Landing
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Where does the Finch family live?
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Maycomb
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What happened to Atticus Finch's first two clients?
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Hung for Mutilating
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What President said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."?
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FDR
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Who is Calpurnia?
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The Finches cook
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How much older than Scout is Jem?
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4 years
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What is the town's principle recreation?
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Church
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Why doesn't Arthur (Boo) Radley ever come out of his house?
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He's thought to be dead, and/or hidding in the basement eating squirrles and cats.
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Who is Dill?
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Charles Baker Harris; Ms. Rachels nephew. He comes to visit Maycomb in the summer.
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Why was Burris Ewell sent home from school?
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He was dirty and Ms. Caroline said he needed to take a bath.
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What advice does Atticus give Scout to help her survive at school?
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To step into their skin and walk around in it to see it from their perspective.
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Why is Mr. Ewell allowed to break the law and hunt out of season?
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He is excempted from the law in order to feed his children.
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When did Scout and Jem begin to find little gifts?
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At the end of the school year in the old peacon tree.
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What were these gifts?
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Gum, and copper Indian penny, and old pocket watch.
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What is a "Hot Steam"?
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A soul trapped in the living world. If you walk through it you are then trapped too unless you quote "Angel-bright, life-in-death; get off the road, don't suck my breath"
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What new game do Scout, Jem, and Dill decide to play?
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Boo Radely; they renact his life and add in details to make it more interesting.
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Why did Scout want to give up the new game?
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She didn't like it and Atticus almost caught them once.
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Why do Jem and Dill reject Scout?
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She's a girl.
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Who is Miss Maudie?
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Finch's neighbors who make scummbernogs, and doesn't ever tattle on Scout and Jem.
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How does Dill plan to get Boo Radley to come outside?
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Put a note in the house asking him to come out and talk to the kids.
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How does Jem loose his pants?
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He was sneaking around the Radley house but Mr. Nathan shoots off a shotgun scaring Dill, Scout and Jem off. Jem gets caught in the fence and he looses his pants.
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How does Dill tell Atticus that Jem lost them?
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Strip poker.
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How does Jem get his pants back?
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He sneaks out in the night and goes to the Radely house and steals them back.
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What gifts are left for Scout and Jem in the tree?
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Soap figures
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How do they respond to the gifts?
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They are freaked out thinking it is VooDoo magic.
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Why do the gifts stop?
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Mr. Nathan filled up the tree claiming it was sick.
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Who do you think is leaving them and why?
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Boo; The way his character is depicted.
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Why does Scout think that the world is coming to an end?
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Its snowing
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Why is school cancelled that day?
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It's the first snow day since 1885
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What do Jem and Scout do with the free time?
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They built a snowman with mud and snow.
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Why did Jem and Scout get up in the middle of the night?
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Ms. Maudie's house had caught fire.
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Where did the blanket come from?
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Boo Radley
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Who is Tom Robinson?
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The black man Atticus is defending in a court case against the Ewells
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What does Uncle Jack do for a living?
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Doctor
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Why does Scout start swearing ?
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She hopes Atticus will think she picked it up at school and then withdraw her from school
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Why does Uncle Jack punish Scout?
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He told Scout not to swear.
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What is Maycomb's "usual disease"?
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prejudice, racism, being unwilling to change, being determined and stubborn.
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Why is it a sin to kill a mockingbird?
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Mockingbirds bring joy and have beautiful songs.
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Why is Scout ashamed of Atticus?
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He can't do the things other childrens parents can do like play football.
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What is wrong with old Tim Johnson?
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He is sick/has rabbies.
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Who is One-Shot Finch and how did that name come about?
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Atticus; he had a nearly perfect shot but he is embarresed about it
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How does Jem get even with Mrs. Dubose for her verbal attack on the Finch family?
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He attacks her flowers with the batton he bout Scout.
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What is Jem's punishment?
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He has to read to Mrs. Dubose for 2 hours every day after school and on the weekends.
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What was Mrs. Dubose's problem or illness?
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Morphine addict.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. Who said this?
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Atticus
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. What theme does this produce?
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You never know someone until you walk a mile in their shoes.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em. Who is this said to?
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Uncle Jack
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Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird Who says this?
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Atticus
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Atticus lists 3 reasons as to why he can't abandoned Tom Robinson's case. What are they.
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1) If he didn't he couldn't hold his head up in town. 2) Its the one case that affects him personally. 3) They were licked 100 yaers before they started.
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"He was nearly fifty... He was much older the parents of our school contemportaries and there was nothing Jem or I could say about him when our class mates said 'My father-'" Who is described here?
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Atticus
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She was the meanest old lady ever born. Who is described
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Mrs. Dubose
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Thinks her niece should wear a dress.
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Aunt Alexandrea
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Says that he knows that Dill gets shipped around and then his aunt takes him in during the summer.
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Francis
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Odd boy with white blonde hair and proclaims he can read when he first meets Scout and Jem.
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Dill
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Jem
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Scouts older brother by 4 years
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Scout
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Main character; Jean Louise Finch
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Simon Finch
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Ancestor of scout and Jem discovered Simons Homestead aka Finches Landing
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What happened to Scout and Jem's Mom?
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She died of a heart attack when Scout was 2.
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When was Harper Lee born?
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April 28, 1926
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Did Harper Lee ever finish College?
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No.
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What are the Themes presented in the novel?
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Education Maturing Good vs Evil Racism and Prejudice Respect Jusitice
