The Characters
The strict but loving Black cook who acts as a mother figure.
Who is Calpurnia?
What Jem touches at the end of Chapter 1
What is the Radley House?
Ch. 7 How does this chapter begin?
What is Scout is starting 2nd grade?
What Scout gets in trouble for on her first day of school.
What is being able to read?
A boy from Meridian, Mississippi, who visits his aunt in the summer.
Who is Dill (Charles Baker Harris)?
What Scout finds in the knothole of the tree first.
What is chewing gum?
The poor, honest family that pays back debts with food.
Who are the Cunninghams?
What Jem loses when running from the Radley yard.
What are his pants?
The kind neighbor whose house burned down
Who is Miss Maudie Atkinson?
What Boo Radley allegedly did to his father with scissors as a youth.
What is stab him in the leg?
This occurs in Chapter 8, forcing the school to close and leading to a snowman
What is snow?
What are carved figures/dolls?
The filthiest human Scout has ever seen; he comes to school the first day every year and then doesn't come back.
Who is Burris Ewell?
What Boo Radley places on Scout during the fire in Chapter 8.
What is a blanket?
The poor, honest family that pays back debts with food.
Who are the Cunninghams?
What Scout does to Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard.
What is fighting him?
A black man who stands falsely accused of raping Mayella Ewell.
Who is Tom Robinson?
This stops the gifts in the tree, which Nathan Radley claims is dying.
What is filling the hole with cement?
Why does Atticus awaken Jem and Scout instead of just letting them sleep through the fire incident?
Atticus is worried the fire will spread to their home.
After the fire is over, how does Miss Maudie feel about the destruction of her house?
She is actually okay with the fire because she said she didn't like the house anyway, and now, when she rebuilds it, she'll make it smaller, so she has more room for her garden.