To Kill a Mockingbird Study Guide
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1. Describe the techniques used by Harper Lee to tell the readers the story. ✔✔Harper Lee uses
the techniques of using flashbacks having a young girl t
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To Kill a Mockingbird Study Guide
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
1. Describe the techniques used by Harper Lee to tell the readers the story. ✔✔Harper Lee uses
the techniques of using flashbacks having a young girl tell the story.
2. The time and place in which a story takes place is called the setting. Describe the setting to To
Kill a Mockingbird as best as you can from reading the first chapter. ✔✔It takes place in Maycomb,
Alabama and is situated next to the Radley house.
3. In this chapter the author prepares the readers for the attitudes and prejudices that create the
mood that will prevail throughout the novel. Cite some examples. ✔✔"So Simon, having forgotten
his teacher's dictum on the possession of human chattels, bought three slaves and with their aid
established a homestead on the banks of the Alabama River some forty miles above Saint
Stephens."
4. How did Jem, Scout, and Dill entertain themselves? What did Dill encourage Jem and Scout to
do when they got bored with those activities? ✔✔They worked on, "Improving our treehouse that
rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the back yard, fussing, and running through our list
of dramas."
Look up the meaning of "satire." Use what you learn to show how the author used satire in
describing Scout's experience with Miss Caroline Fisher. ✔✔Satire means the use of humor, irony,
or exaggeration. Scout had to explain things to Miss Caroline about how she learned to read and
Miss Caroline thought she was using satire.
Explain Scout's statement: "Walter hasn't got a quarter at home to bring you, and you can't use any
stovewood." ✔✔It means that even though he doesn't have money, what he can pay her with isn't
usable to her.
How do you think you would have felt if you had been Miss Caroline? ✔✔I would have be happy
for Scout instead of being mad at her from learning from her father.
Compare and contrast Jem and Scout as evidenced by their treatment of Walter Cunningham.
✔✔Scout starts to beat Walter up for getting her in trouble and Jem invites him to dinner. Scout is
mean to him while Jem is kind and hospitable to him.
In this chapter we met a member of the Ewell family. Do you think the Ewells will play an
important role in upcoming chapters? Support your opinion. ✔✔I don't think they will play an
important role because Burris Ewell says he isn't going to school anymore so I don't think we will
see much of him.
Evaluate Atticus's advice to Scout: "You never r
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