TKAM Reading Check - Chapters 29-31

In chapter 29, why does Aunt Alexandra struggle and ask to leave the room?

• She had a headache.

• Guilt - she had a bad feeling earlier and hadn't said anything.

• She doesn't like Arthur Radley.

• She was feeling ill and needed to go lie down.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

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Which literary technique is being used here: "...if we followed our feelings all the time we'd be like cats chasin' their tails."

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Whom did Scout tell Heck Tate that they initially thought was following them?

• Cecil Jacobs

• Walter Cunningham

• Burris Ewell

• Nathan Radley

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Why did Atticus and Alexandra not hear Jem, even though he was "loud enough to wake the dead"?

• They were at Miss Maudie's.

• They were asleep - and are very sound sleepers.

• They both had their radios playing very loudly.

• They were arguing very loudly.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Why could Jem see Scout at night, even though it was very dark?

• The streetlights were very bright.

• There was shiny paint on her costume.

• He couldn't - that is why he tripped and fell.

• He had a flashlight.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which of the following (according to chapter 29) is evidence that "Bob Ewell meant business"?

• He spied on Judge Taylor.

• He spit on Atticus.

• He tried to intimidate Helen Robinson.

• There was an obvious mark from a knife stab left in Scout's costume.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

To whom does this quote refer and to which big idea and symbol does this quote connect: "...there's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em."

• Bob Ewell; racism; mockingbird

• Tom Robinson; good vs evil; mad dog

• Arthur Radley; social inequality; mad dog

• Bob Ewell; racism; mad dog

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Scout told Heck Tate that after Ewell yanked Jem down, she heard a "funny noise." What was that?

• Bob Ewell cry out

• Jem's arm being broken

• The knife stabbing her costume

• Jem's leg being broken

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Who was "staggerin' around and pantin' and - coughing fit to die"?

• Atticus Finch

• Bob Ewell

• Arthur Radley

• Heck Tate

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is "Boo" Radley's conflict in chapter 29?

• That Maycomb's stigmas against him are inaccurate as they are not representative of his true persona.

• He was unable to save Scout and Jem from Mr. Ewell.

• That he saved Scout and Jem which revealed he isn't the cruel man the children believe him to be.

• His anger at the children for spreading the tales that he poisons the fruit trees led him to get revenge by attacking Scout and Jem.

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