To Kill a Mockingbird Questions Set 6

Answer the following questions about TKM, Chapters 25 through 31 . Be sure you can give a page number for each answer. 

  1. In chapter 25, Atticus picks up Jem and Dill on their way home from swimming. However, Atticus does not directly take them home. Where do they go?
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  3. Who is the woman who collapses (suddenly falls down )?
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  5. Why does she collapse?
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  7. School begins again at the beginning of chapter 26. What grades are Jem and Scout in this year?
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  9. Scout's teacher this year is Miss Gates.  Miss Gates tells the class it is okay to hate the person Cecil presented in his Current Events presentation. Who is the person?

  10. Scout later asks Atticus if it is okay to hate this person. What is his answer?

  11. Why is Scout confused by Miss Gates' and Atticus' statements about hate?

  12. In chapter 27, Scout mentions that three things happened that October. The first was that Bob Ewell got a job with the WPA. What was the second event?
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  14. The third thing happend to Helen Robinson. What happened to her?
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  16. What will Scout's Halloween costume be this year? Why?
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  18. In chapter 28, what happens to Jem and Scout as they walk to the Halloween pageant?
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  20. What  happens to Jem and Scout  on the way home from the pageant?
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  22. How does Jem get home?
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  24. How does Scout get home?

  25. What happens to Bob Ewell?

  26. In chapter 29, Scout tells Atticus and Heck Tate what happened on the way home from the Halloween pagaent. She sees someone in the corner of the room. Who is it?

  27. What  will Heck Tate write in his official report about the events of the night?

  28. Does Atticus agree with him? Why?

  29. At the end of chapter 31, Atticus tells Scout that most people are real nice when you finally see them. What does he mean by this?

Laurie Miller
Email:llmiller@gmu.edu
Last Update: March 21, 2005


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