To Kill A Mocking Bird Chapter Questions 130 with correct answers

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To Kill A Mocking Bird Chapter Questions 130 with correct answers Chapter 1 Questions: >>>Chapter 1 Answers: 1. Who is the narrator of the novel? What type of narration is used? >>>The narrator o ... f the novel is Scout and first person point of view is the narration during the novel. 2. The narrator begins her story by giving the reader background information. What does the narrator reveal about her family history in the first several pages? >>>The family history is dirty, slow, boring, and tired (gloomy) while there's nothing to buy and no money to buy it with. 3. The novel is set in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930's, during the Great Depression. What indicates that most of the towns people are poor? >>>Her relative Simon Finch found land, grew cotton, and continued to live on the land until Atticus Finch came along, which indicates that the towns people are poor. 4. How does Scout describe the way she and her brother feel about their father? >>>Scout says he reads to them and respects them, though he treats them with "courteous detachment" meaning he was polite to them but a little distant. 5. What happened to Scout and Jem's mother? >>>She died early of a heart attack. 6. Who is Calpurnia? How does Scout describe her? Identify a simile that she uses in her description. (simile is compares 2 things that are alike in some way. To identify a simile it uses "like" or "as".) >>>Calpurnia is the house maid and was all angles and bones, slim, near sighted, and African American. On simile was, "her hand was as wide as a bed slat and twice as hard." 7. How does Jem and Scout meet Dill? How does Scout describe the boy? >>>Scout and Jem strangely heard a noise coming from Miss Rachel Haverford's porch. Later they met Dill and Scout characterizes him as very small for his age, with white hair (very bright blond), and blue linen shorts. 8. What is frightening to the children about the Radley's house? What lives in the house, according to Scout? >>>Boo Radley is the frightening "malevolent phantom" that lives in the house. An evil ghost. 9. Describe some of the rumors surrounding the Radley's house and its inhabitant. How does the reader know that some of the rumors are untrue and that fears concerning the house may be unfolded? >>>Many rumors that go around are that Boo stabbed his father in the leg, that they chain him to a bed, and that small animals are found dead around the house. Boo is said to only go out at night and has been caught peering into people's windows. He is also said to eat squirrels and cats he catches. The reason readers know that some of the rumors are untrue is because of neighborhood gossip- no one has seen anything that would prove the rumors true. 10. Beginning with the line, "The misery of that house began many years before Jem and I were born," Scout tells the reader the sad history of the Radley family. Briefly summarize what happened to the family. >>>It all started when they kept all to themselves and didn't talk to anyone in the community. They didn't go to Church and Boo got in trouble and was released to his father on the condition that Boo never caused any trouble again. This is why Boo has never truly been seen. 11. How did the townspeople feel about the Radley family? How did they view Mr. Radley in particular? Provide quotes from the text to support your answer. >>>Many of the townspeople were scared of him and Calpurnia says that Mr. Radley is the "meanest man God ever blew breath into." [Show More]

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