To Kill a Mockingbird

READING CHECK

1. In what town and state do Scout and Jem live?

Answer: Maycomb, Alabama

2. What is the name of Jem and Scout’s father?

Answer: Atticus Finch

3. What is Jem and Scout’s father’s occupation?

Answer: Lawyer

4. What is the name of the Finch’s cook/housekeeper?

Answer: Calpurnia

5. What is the name of Miss Rachel’s nephew who comes to visit each summer?

Answer: Dill (full name: Charles Baker Harris)

6. What is Scout’s full name?

Answer: Jean Louise Finch

QUIZ

1. What happened to Jem and Scout’s mother?

A) She died giving birth to Scout.

B) She died of a sudden heart attack.

C) She and Atticus are divorced.

D) She died in a car accident.

2. What is curious about the Radley house?

A) it’s abandoned

B) it’s haunted

C) The Radley’s son died there.

D) The Radley’s son lives there, but he never comes out.

3. What pretend game do Scout, Jem, and Dill play all summer?

A) They pretend to be circus animals.

B) They pretend to be Miss Maudie, tending her garden.

C) They pretend to be lawyers at a trial.

D) They pretend to be Boo Radley and his parents.

Discussion Suggestion: Use the above question to discuss the Radleys’ reputation. How does Atticus’s view of the Radley family seem to differ from the majority of the town’s, and why doesn’t he approve of the children’s pretend game?

4. Put Scout, Jem, and Dill in order of age, from oldest to youngest.

5. When Miss Caroline tries to lend Walter Cunningham a quarter to buy lunch, what does Scout explain about the Cunninghams’ reputation?