To Kill a Mocking Bird Questions and Answers
Summer Assignment for Honors English One Questions for To Kill a Mockingbird
1. a. The geographical location of the story, To Kill a Mockingbird, is in the South. I know this because in the book it says, “Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.” page 3-4
b. The story, To Kill A Mockingbird, is taken place in Maycomb County, Alabama. I know this because in the novel it says, “When my father was admitted to the bar, he returned to Maycomb and began his practice. Maycomb, some twenty miles east of Flinch’s Landing, was the county seat of Maycomb County.” page 4. Also, on page 79 it says, “There are no clearly defined seasons in South Alabama;…”
c. The book To Kill a Mockingbird is taken place in the nineteen-thirties. “The first thing was the Mr. Bob Ewell acquired and lost a job in matter of days and probably made himself unique in the annals of the nineteen-thirties.” Page 332 2. a. Boo Radley
b. “The man was walking with the staccato steps of someone carrying a load too heavy for him. He was going around the corner. He was carrying Jem. Jem’s arms was dangling crazily in front of him.” Page 352 3. a. Bob Ewell
b. “Now here me, Bob Ewell: if I hear one more word outa my girl Helen about not bein’ able to walk down this road I’ll have you in jail before sundown!” page 334 4. a. First person
b. “Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence… Jem was the product of their first year of marriage; four years later I was born, and two years later our mother died of a sudden heart attack.” Page 7 5. a. The climax began the day of the trial of Tom Robinson. Scout and especially Jem could not understand how the jury found Tom Robinson guilty. It was clear to most people that Mayella’s father, Bob, had choked her.
b. “I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: ‘Guilty… guilty… guilty…guilty…’” page 282 6.
1. a. The geographical location of the story, To Kill a Mockingbird, is in the South. I know this because in the book it says, “Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.” page 3-4
b. The story, To Kill A Mockingbird, is taken place in Maycomb County, Alabama. I know this because in the novel it says, “When my father was admitted to the bar, he returned to Maycomb and began his practice. Maycomb, some twenty miles east of Flinch’s Landing, was the county seat of Maycomb County.” page 4. Also, on page 79 it says, “There are no clearly defined seasons in South Alabama;…”
c. The book To Kill a Mockingbird is taken place in the nineteen-thirties. “The first thing was the Mr. Bob Ewell acquired and lost a job in matter of days and probably made himself unique in the annals of the nineteen-thirties.” Page 332 2. a. Boo Radley
b. “The man was walking with the staccato steps of someone carrying a load too heavy for him. He was going around the corner. He was carrying Jem. Jem’s arms was dangling crazily in front of him.” Page 352 3. a. Bob Ewell
b. “Now here me, Bob Ewell: if I hear one more word outa my girl Helen about not bein’ able to walk down this road I’ll have you in jail before sundown!” page 334 4. a. First person
b. “Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence… Jem was the product of their first year of marriage; four years later I was born, and two years later our mother died of a sudden heart attack.” Page 7 5. a. The climax began the day of the trial of Tom Robinson. Scout and especially Jem could not understand how the jury found Tom Robinson guilty. It was clear to most people that Mayella’s father, Bob, had choked her.
b. “I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: ‘Guilty… guilty… guilty…guilty…’” page 282 6.