To Kill A Mockingbird Study Questions Chapter 2 – Flashcards
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Describe Scout's teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher. What is irrational about her teaching methods?
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She is around 21 with auburn hair and pink cheeks. She wears a white striped dress with heels and has crimson nail polish. She tells Scout to stop letting her father teach her how to read because he's doing it wrong, even though she already knows how to read.
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How did Scout learn to read and write?
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She learned from reading the daily papers in church.
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Describe the Cunningham clan.
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The Cunningham's are poor people who get along on what they have.
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When Scout asks her father if they are as poor as the Cunningham's, how does he respond? Through Atticus's, what does the reader learn about the Great Depression and how it affected different classes of people in different ways?
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Atticus said, "not exactly. The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them the hardest."
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Why does Miss Caroline punish Scout?
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Scouts tells Miss Caroline that she is shaming Walter.
