Answer the following questions about TKM, Chapters 5 through 9 . Be sure you can give a page number for each answer. 

1. What does Miss Maudie usually give the children?


2. In chapter five, Miss Maudie tells Scout that Atticus is "the same in his house is his is on public streets."  What does Miss Maudie mean by this and why does she say it to Scout?
   


3. Atticus finds the chidlren with a long fishing pole.  What were they doing with it ?
   


4. Does Atticus approve of what the children are doing with the fishing pole? Why?
   
 
5. On Dill's last night for the summer, what do the children ask permission to do?
 
6. Do the children actually do what they asked permission to do?  What do they do?
   
   
7. When the children meet up with the adults later in the evening, what is missing?  What explanation do they give for this?
   


8. In the beginnig of  chapter 7, Jem tells Scout something he had kept secret from her.  What does he tell her?
   

9. Jem and Scout find little figures of a boy and a girl carved out of soap in a tree knot hole. Who does Jem think carved the figures? 


10. Jem and Scout leave a letter in the tree knot hole to thank the person who has been leaving gifts for them. Does the person receive the letter?  Why?


11. What unsual weather event happens shortly after the children leave the letter in the tree knot hole?
    


12. What do the children do because of this unusal weather?


13. Whose house burns down?


14. Why is Atticus upset with Jem and Scout when he comes back from helping fight the fire?


15. With whom does Scout fight to defend Atticus's character?
    
    
16. With whom do Atticus, Jem and Scout spen Christmas?


17. Scout overhears two people talking at the end of chapter 9.  Who are they?
    
 
18. During the conversation Scout overhears, one of the speakers says he hopes Jem and Scout will not catch the usual disase catch by people in Maycomb. What is that disease?