Chapter 11

1. "You just hold your head high and be a gentleman" Don't let her make you mad.

2. She says she was a lovely lady and Jem is livid.

3. He must read to her for a month 2 hours a day!

4. Atticus says "that don't mean anything,ignorant, trashy people use it.

5. Because she is trying to beat a morphine addiction just because she wants to die free.

6. He means that she is dying and the morphine would help...but she is suffering instead so she can die free of this addiction.

7. Answers will vary.

chapter 10

1.It was her view when she was younger. After the events of the chapter Scout realizes that Atticus is not as feeble as she once thought.

2. He tells them this because he doesn't want them shooting at the mockingbirds because as Miss Maudie states "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us" (They never do anything "bad")

3. Heck Tate (the sheriff of Maycomb county) wants Atticus to shoot Tim Johnson because he is a better shot. Tim Johnson is a mad dog!

4.

Chapter 9

Answers:
1. Atticus wants to do his best, even though he knows he won't win. Racism still exists in the court system in Alabama in this time period.

2. The good side, the Christmas tree, Uncle Jack and the food at Aunt Alexandria. The bad side was cold Aunt Alexandra and Francis.

3. You are getting older and acting inappropriate. He wants Scout to grow up to be a lady.

4. She is a racist

5. Scout learns of how much Atticus values his children and hoe he hopes that his children are not affected by his defending Tom Robinson.

6. Answers will vary.

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Chapter 7

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Chapter 5 answers

Chapter 5
• Describe Miss Maudie Atkinson? How typical is she of Maycomb's women? What do the children think of her?
Miss Maudie Atkinson - The Finches’ neighbor, a sharp-tongued widow, and an old friend of the family. Miss Maudie is almost the same age as Atticus’s younger brother, Jack. Miss Maudie keeps to herself except when a neighbor is in need. Unlike most of Maycomb's other townspeople, Maudie's friendship also extends to the town's black citizens. She shares Atticus’s passion for justice and is the children’s best friend among Maycomb’s adults.

• What does Miss Maudie tell Scout about Boo? How does this compare with what Scout already believes?
Miss Maudie told Scout that Boo is still alive, and he just stays in his house. She says that Boo's father is a "foot-washing" Baptist who believed that most people will go to Hell. Also, that Boo was always polite and spoke nicely when he was a kid

• Scout claims that “Dill could tell the biggest ones ” (lies) she ever heard. Why might Dill have told such lies?
Divorce & single-parenthood (outside of that brought about through the death of a spouse) were very shameful things in the 1930's. Dill was an outsider simply because of his birth. The aunt he stayed with was a gossip, so you can bet the whole town knew about Dill's situation and probably talked about him. He knew it, and he tried to compensate by creating a world that was better than what he had. His escape was his imagination where he could pick his family, make his father a hero, and make himself loved.

• What reasons does Atticus give for the children not to play the Boo Radley game? Do you think he is right? Why?
The children, Scout, Jem, and Dill, have been acting out their ideas about the Radleys in much the same way they had previously acted out stories they had read. This shows that they view the family as just a part of their fictional games. They don't see the Radleys as real people and the don't realize that their game may be hurtful to real humans behind the Radley windows. Atticus catches them and orders them to “stop tormenting that man” with either notes or the “Boo Radley” game. As an adult, Atticus can see the real hurt the game may be causing. In a quiet way, he reminds the children that “What Mr. Radley does is his own business.” So Atticus has taught the children as lesson about respecting other people.