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Use the review games below to practice.

Practice

Let's see how much you remember from To Kill a Mockingbird.

1) What is the outcome of the children snooping at the Radley place? What did Jem lose in the process?

Answer: The children were frightened on the Radley's back porch by a shadow. When the children ran from the Radley's backyard, they had to scoot under the fence. Jem's pants got stuck going under, so he had to wiggle out of them and leave them tangled in the fence.

2) What do the people in the neighborhood assume about the intruders in the Radley yard? What does this reveal about the people of Maycomb and their attitudes toward African Americans?

Answer: The neighbors assume that black people were in the Radley's back yard. This is significant of the racial issues in Maycomb.

3) Why does Jem go back to the Radley place?

Answer: To get his pants untangled from the fence.

4) What does Jem reveal to Scout about the night when he returned to the Radley place?

Answer: His pants were mended from where they were ripped and fold neatly over the fence.

5) Why would there be no more surprises in the knot hole in the tree?

Answer: Mr. Radley filled the hole with cement.

6) What happens to Miss Maudie's house?

Answer: It caught on fire.

7) What is placed around Scout's shoulder during the excitement? Who put it there?

Answer: A blanket was placed around her shoulders by Boo Radley.

8) Why does Atticus say he is defending Tom Robinson?

Answer: He is defending him because he said he could not live with himself if he did not defend him nor could he hold his head up in town if he did not defend him. He also mentioned he needed to defend him so he could represent Maycomb County in the state legislature.

9) Who is the sheriff of Maycomb County?

Answer: Heck Tate

10) What surprise do the children find out about their father?

Answer: His nickname growing up was One Shot Finch.

11) What causes Jem to "lose his head" and destroy Mrs. Dubose's bushes?

Answer: She was speaking negatively about Atticus.

12) What is Jem's punishment for cutting off the tips of Mrs. Dubose's camellia bushes?

Answer: He has to go to her house every day after school for a month and read to her.

13) What do we learn about Mrs. Dubose?

Answer: She is addicted to morphine and is trying to wean herself off of the pain relieving drug before she dies.

14) Why do Heck Tate and Atticus come to the house in the middle of the day?

Answer: To shoot a dog with rabies.