TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Study Guide Questions – Flashcards

father to Scout and Jem; lawyer who defends Tom Robinson

little girl who comes of age. she tells the story. sister to Jem, daughter to Atticus

Scout's older brother

a tired, poor, old town in the grips of the Great Depression

The Finch's housekeeper; acts as a more distant mother-figure to Jem and Scout

Jem and Scout's summer neighbor and friend. He is a confident boy with an active imagination. He is fascinated with Boo.

"a neighborhood scold"

the prison of Boo Radley, the Radley Plave is very mysterious to Scout, Jem, and Dill

town outcast whom children constantly try to see

scout's first grade teacher

Son of Mr. Cunningham and classmate of Scout. he cannot afford lunch one day at school and accidentally gets Scout in trouble.

Filthy, cusses out the teacher, only goes to the first day of school every year

It was when Dill, Scout and Jem would act out the stories they heard about Boo Radley.

Dill dares Jem to go up and touch the house. Jem pretends not to be afraid, but he is still scared as he runs away. Later Atticus scolds them for trying to provoke Boo Radley.

The first "crime" that Scout committed in school was reading to Miss Caroline, her teacher. The students were not meant to be able to read yet, so she was told not to read out of class.

scout being able to read and write

Because he made her look bad on the first day of school, after she defended/explained his reason for rejecting the teacher's 25 cents.

Scout meant that Walter Cunningham is Socially unequal because his family is a member of the lower class., Scout meant that Finches are better than Cunninghams, and for that reason she didn't have to treat Walter as company. Cal told Scout that she should treat anyone who came to visit her home as "company" and show him every courtesy.

She tried giving Walter Cunningham a quarter for his lunch (he doesn't accept anything he cannot pay back), and then she tried to make Burris Ewell stay in class.

in all reality the Ewells are considered the lowest of the low in the book and the truant officers are just happy enough to get them there on the first day of school.

They found gum, two pennies, a watch, twine, and two carved soap figures of themselves

An elderly, ill-tempered, racist woman who lives near the Finches. Although Jem believes that Mrs. Dubose is a thoroughly bad woman, Atticus admires her for the courage with which she battles her morphine addiction., A mean, sick, very old woman who lives near the Finch family. Jem unknowingly assists her with her heroic attempt to conquer her morphine addiction, a fight that wins her Atticus's highest praises., lived two doors up from Scout's house, meanest old woman ever

Pushing her down in a tire roughly so she would become nauseated.