TKAM Final Analysis

Scout's father:

• is extremely strict with Scout and Jem

• owns the railroad

• answers all of his children's questions

• none

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Which of the following best support the previous answer?

• "What's rape?" I asked him that night.

  He sighed, and said rape was carnal knowledge of female by force and without consent.

  -Chapter 14

• "I know all that stuff," he said.

  Atticus suddenly grew serious. In his lawyer's voice, without a shade of inflection, he said: "Your aunt has asked me to try and impres upon you and Jean Louise that you are not from run-of-the-mill people,.."

  Chapter 13

• "Out to your house," I said. "Sometimes after work? Atticus can get me."

  -Chapter 12

• "Reckon he's got a tapeworm?" Atticus said no.

  -Chapter 12

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Why is it a sin to kill a mockingbird?

• They are a sacrifice

• They are the state bird of Alabama

• They're so much like humans

• They don't bother anybody

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What best supports the answer to the previous question?

• "Miss Maudie looked around, and the shadow of her old grin crossed her face. 'Always wanted a smaller house, Jem Finch. Ges me more yard. Just think, I'll have more room for my azaleas now!'"

  -Chapter 8

• "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

  -Chapter 10

• "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, the don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

  -Chapter 10

• "You act like you grew ten inches in the night! All right, what is it?"

  -Chapter 5

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does the mockingbird symbolize?

• Freedom

• Justice

• Innocence

• Creativity

Which quote best supports the previous question?

• "As we came to the live oaks at the Radley Place I raised my finger to point for the hundredth time to the knot-hole where I had found the chewing gum, trying to make Jem believe I had found it there, and found myself pointing at another piece of tinfoil."

  -Chapter 4

• "No sir, they oughta do away with juries. He wasn't guilty in the first place and they said he was.' 'If you had been on that jury, son, and eleven other boys like you, Tom would be a free man,'"

  -Chapter 23

• "'Mr. Finch, I was runnin' so fast I didn't know what happened.' 'Tom, did you rape Mayella Ewell?' 'I did not, suh.' 'Did you harm her in any way?' 'I did not, suh.' 'Did you resist her advances?' 'Mr. Finch, I tried. I tried to 'thout bein' ugly to her.'"

  -Chapter 19

• "Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin to kill cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping. He likened Tom's death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children, and Maycomb thought he was trying to write an editorial poetical enough to be reprinted in The Montgomery Advertiser."

  -Chapter 25

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What do the gifts found in the Radley's tree symbolize to Jem and Scout?

• Boo needs help getting out.

• Boo Radley wants to be friends.

• Dill is back in town for the summer.

• Mr. Avery is cleaning the neighborhood

What quote best supports the previous question?

• "When I went back, they were folded across the fence... like they were expectin' me."

  -Chapter 7

• "'Thank who?' I asked.

  'Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn't know it when he put the blanket around you.'"

  -Chapter 8

• "There's a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it's dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr. Finch. Let the dead bury the dead."

  -Chapter 30

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

In the courtroom, Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson. Which quote supports Atticus' belief in the importance of empathy and understanding?

• "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

• "Shoot all the bluejays you want if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Statement: "Scout Finch undergoes a significant transformation throughout the novel." Which quote provides evidence of Scout's growth and maturity?

• "I think there's just one kind of folks."

• "I wanted you to see what real courage is... It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3