To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapter 3, 4 and 5 study guide
Directions: Answer in complete
sentences on a separate piece of paper.
1. Why did Scout beat up Walter Cunningham?
What did Jem do about this? Why?
2. What do we know about Burris Ewell? What is
his family’s legacy?
3. Empathy is a topic that arises in this
chapter. Define empathy and find two specific lines from the text that discuss
or explain empathy.
4. What do Jem and Scout find in the knot-hole
in the tree? How do they react?
5. Hypothesize who and perhaps why someone is
leaving things in the tree for.
6. Who is Maudie Atkinson? How would you
characterize her?
7. Discuss Calpurnia and Scouts relationship
from chapter 1 to chapter 5. What is it like? Has it changed or developed?
8. Jem accuses Scout of being a ”girl.” Why is
this an insult? Compare society of 1930’s Alabama to Rangeview High School.
Would this still be an insult today? Explain.
9. What happens when Jem, Scout and Dill plan
to stick a note through the shutter to Boo Radley? Be Specific.
10. Atticus uses the “oldest lawyers’ trick on
record” to get Jem to admit something he was doing. What was Jem doing? What was Atticus’ trick?
Have your parent’s ever used this trick on you? Explain.
11. Explain why Scout becomes annoyed with
Dill.
12. Explain what Ms. Maudie means when she
says, “…if Atticus Finch drank until he was drunk he wouldn’t be as hard as
some men at their best.”
13. What plan do Jem and Dill devise to contact
Boo Radley?
14. What order does Atticus give regarding the
children and Boo?
15. Identify and analyze three topics that are
emerging thus far in the book. Do not use empathy as one!
English 10- Today we finished the questions about the article Suicide by Choice? Not so Fast. We then took notes on rhetorical devises like ethos, pathos and logos. If you were absent see me right away to get caught up on the notes.
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