chapter 22
“I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it—seems that only __________ weep. Good night.”
children
Aunt Alexandra hosts the __________ Society tea.
Missionary
To Maycomb, Tom’s death was _____ of a black person.
typical
Atticus Finch won’t win, he can’t win, but he’s the only man in these parts who can keep a _____ out so long in a case like that. And I thought to myself, well, we’re making a step—it’s just a baby-step, but it’s a step.”
jury
Atticus says about the jury, "Those are twelve ____men in everyday life, Tom’s jury, but you saw something come between them and ___.
reasonable... reason
Who writes something critical of the shooting of Tom Robinson?
Mr. Underwood
What was "Miss Maudie’s way of saying that as far as she was concerned, nothing had changed"?
Giving Jem a slice from the big cake
Bob Ewell stopped Atticus on the post office corner, spat in his face, and told him he’d get him if it took the rest of his life. “I wish Bob Ewell wouldn’t ______ __________ ,” was all Atticus said about it.
chew tobacco
Who is Scout fantasizing about here:
“Evening, Jean Louise,” he would say, as if he had said it every afternoon of my life, “right pretty spell we’re having, isn’t it?” “Yes sir, right pretty,” I would say, and go on.
Boo Radley
“Reckon Aunty’ll let me eat these in the dining-room?”
To what is Atticus referring?
pickled pigs’ knuckles brought by the black community
Atticus says about Ewell's actions towards him: "He had to take it out on somebody and I’d rather it be me than that ________ ________ __________ out there."
houseful of children
To "sterilize" a person, as related to Cecil's current event, means to remove that person's ability to __.
reproduce, have children
“I told her till I was blue in the face where I was goin‘—she’s just seein’ too many snakes in the closet. Bet that woman drinks a pint for breakfast every morning—know she drinks two glasses full. Seen her.”
Who is speaking, and who is being described?
Dill, describing Aunt Rachel
Jem remarks, "Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time… it’s because ______."
he wants to stay inside
With whom is Atticus impatient because he considers this person a "maniac"?
Hitler