To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 1

Multiple Choice

"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow...When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident" (Lee 3). In what point of view is the story told?

• first person

• second person

• third person limited

• third person omniscient

Multiple Select

Check the character if he or she is introduced in the first chapter.

• Atticus

• Jem

• Calpurnia

• Tom Robinson

• Boo Radley

Open Ended

"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a hot summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself" (Lee 6).

Open Ended

Use three vivid words to describe Maycomb.

Multiple Choice

When the narrator says, "Maycomb county had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself (Lee 6), what literary device is being employed?

• foreshadowing

• simile

• hyperbole

• allusion

• alliteration

Poll

How well do you understand chapter one of To Kill a Mockingbird?

• I am confused.

• I have a firm grasp on the chapter.

• I need a little help understanding the chapter.