9th Grade English Name:________________________
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Chapters 16-19 Review Sheet
Atticus says, in Chapter 16, “A mob’s always made up of _________________, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a ______________. Every mob in every Southern town is always made up of ____________________________________________________.” Crowds of people come into town to watch the big trial of Tom Robinson. Why isn’t Miss Maudie going? ______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________. Mr. Dolphus Raymond is in front of the courthouse. An unusual thing about Dolphus Raymond is ________________________________
______________________________________________________. Jem says he has _______________
_____________________________ in the paper bag he drinks from. Jem says “mixed children” are sad because _____________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________.
“This was news, news that put a
different light on things…I thought it odd that [Atticus] hadn’t said anything
to us about it.” What is this news?
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_________________________________________________________. The courtroom is full; no room is left. But Jem, Scout, and Dill sit ______________________________________________________.
First to testify is ________________________________. Atticus gets an important detail from him: Mayella Ewell was banged and bruised on the __________________ side of her face, and her _________________ eye was blackened. The Ewell family lived behind the _____________________
______________________. Their yard is full of ___________________________________________, except for one corner, which has 6 _______________________________________________________. Mr. Ewell’s version of events is that he was coming home one night when he heard ________________
_______________________________, so he ___________________________________________, but he got tangled in the ____________________. Finally, through the window he saw ________________
____________________________________________________________. Reverend Sykes thinks Jem should take Scout home because ________________________________________________________. Next, says Mr. Ewell, he ran ________________________________________, but _______________
_________________________________________________. When it’s his turn, Atticus asks Mr. Ewell about two main points. One is, why Mr. Ewell didn’t call ______________________________ that night. The other is, “Mr. Ewell, can you ___________________________________?” That seems like an unrelated question, but it is only to show in the end that Mr. Ewell is _____________________, just like the person most likely to have attacked Mayella.
Mayella takes the stand. She is __________________ years old. She says that she invited Tom Robinson into the yard to ________________________________________________ but that he followed her into the house when she went in to get ________________________________________. When Atticus get us to question her, she says Atticus is making fun of her, because he’s calling her __________________ and _________________________. Atticus asks her if she loves her father, and she says, “He does tollable [tolerable], except when—” What was going to be the end of that statement, probably? (Read the next few lines on the page.) ___________________________________________. But when Atticus asks if Mr. Ewell ever beat her, she answers _________________________________
__________________________________________________________. When Atticus asks her to identify the man who raped her, she says it was _____________________________. When Tom Robinson stands up to be identified, he has one particular, important physical characteristic: _________
_______________________________________________________________________________. Finally, Atticus asks for the truth: “…didn’t ____________________________ beat you up?” The trial pauses, and Scout sees that ___________________________________ has noticed they’re in the courtroom. It’s nearly ___________ o’clock, but Atticus thinks the trial can finish today. He has only one witness to call.