Study questions for Chapters 3-8

Read carefully and answer the questions. They do NOT need to be in complete sentences, but please make sure you fully answer the question! :) Read carefully and review before Tuesday....there might just be a quiz over Chapters 1-8.

Ch. 3:

1. Who is Calpurnia? What is her place in the Finch household?
2. What is Walter Cunningham like? What does his behaviour during lunch suggest about his home life?
3. What do you think of the way Atticus treats Walter?
4. Does Scout learn anything from Walter's visit? What do you think this is?
5. Atticus says that you never really understand a person “until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”. What does this mean?
   
6. What do you learn in this chapter about the Ewells?
7. State the bargain that Atticus struck with Scout.

Chapter 4

1. What risky behavior do Scout and Jem engage in?
2. Why do the children make Boo's story into a game?
3. How does Atticus react to the game? What does his reaction tell us about his character?
4. Identify at least 2 slang words/phrases appropriate to the 1930's in Maycomb Alabama. Translate these words/phrases into today's language.

Chapter 5:

1. Describe Miss Maudie Atkinson? How typical is she of Maycomb's women? What do the children think of her?
2. What does Miss Maudie tell Scout about Boo? How does this compare with what Scout already believes?
3. Scout claims that “Dill could tell the biggest ones ” (lies) she ever heard. Why might Dill have told such lies?
4. What reasons does Atticus give for the children not to play the Boo Radley game? Do you think he is right? Why?

Chapter 6:

1. Why does Scout disapprove of Jem's and Dill's plan of looking in at one of the Radleys' windows?
2. What does Mr. Nathan Radley know about the intruders in his garden? Why does Miss Stephanie refer to a “negro” over whose head Mr. Nathan has fired?
3. How did Dill explain the loss of Jem's pants to the crowd in front of the Radley place?

Chapter 7:

1. When Jem tells Scout about getting his trousers back, he tells her of something strange. What is this?
2. Can you find any evidence that Jem is beginning to understand more than Scout about Boo Radley? What do you think this is?
3. Does Jem still fear the gifts in the tree? Give reasons for your answer.
4. When the children plan to send a letter to the person who leaves the gifts, they are prevented. How does this happen? Who does it, and why might he do so?

Chapter 8:

1. Why does Scout quiz Atticus about his visit to the Radley house? How much does Atticus tell her?
2. What is the “near libel” which Jem puts in the front yard? How do Miss Maudie and Atticus react to it?
3. Why does Atticus save Miss Maudie's oak rocking chair?
4. When Atticus asks Scout about the blanket around her shoulders, what does Jem realize?
5. Explain what Atticus means by telling Jem not to let his discovery “inspire ” him to “further glory”? Is there any reason why Jem might now do as his father says?