9th Grade English                                                                          Name:_____________________________

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

Chapters 11 & 12 Review

 

 

Chapter 11

 

            Mrs. Dubose is a ___________________________________ who lives on the same street as the Finches.  She says _____________________________________________________ to Jem and Scout.  In response, Jem _____________________________________________________________________.  When Atticus comes home and finds out, he tells Jem to _____________________________________

________________________________.  Jem’s “punishment” is that he has to ____________________

________________________________________ for a month.

            The following Monday, Jem and Scout go to Mrs. Dubose’s house.  Scout describes Mrs. Dubose as _________________________________________________________________________________.  After a little while, Mrs. Dubose, in her bed, _______________________________________________.  The same thing happens over the following days.

            Once, Scout asks Atticus, “______________________________________________________?”

            Atticus answers that it’s just one of those terms _______________________________________

__________________________________.

            Scout: “You aren’t really a __________________________, then, are you?”

            Atticus: “_______________________________________________.  _____________________

_______________________________________________________.”

            One day, at Mrs. Dubose’s, Scout realizes that the alarm clock ___________________________

_____________________________________________________________.

            Some time after their last day, Atticus gets a telephone call.  He gets sad news: ______________

______________________________________________________________________________.  It turns out, as he explains to Jem, Mrs. Dubose was ___________________________________________, and her time in the afternoon with Jem was meant to _________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________.  Mrs. Dubose wanted to face death __________________________________________________________________. 

 

Atticus says, “What real courage is…It’s __________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________.”

 

Part Two, Chapter 12

            Jem is now ________ years old (so Scout is ________).  Some things are different this summer: ___________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________.

            One Sunday, Calpurnia brings the two kids to ________________________________________.  There, a tall woman named Lulu says _____________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________.  Scout notices inside that there are no _________________________________________.  Today’s collection, says the reverend, is going to go to _____________________________________________________________.  How does everyone in the congregation know the words to all the hymns? ________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________.  Toward the end of the service, Reverend Sykes shuts the doors and says no one can leave until _______

______________________________________________________________________________.

            On the way out, Scout asks Calpurnia, “What’s _______________, Cal?”  Cal answers, “______

__________________________________________________________________________________.”

            Why do people at the Black church use “linin’” to sing hymns? ___________________________

_______________________________________________.

            What is Cal’s “double life”? ______________________________________________________

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            The chapter ends with the appearance of ____________________________________ on the Finch front porch.