| How does Scout convince Jem to stop playing Boo Radley? | “[Her] nagging got the best of [him].” |
| If Atticus ever prohibited Scout, Jem, and Dill from playing Boo Radley, how would Jem find a way around it? | He would change the names of the characters. |
| Why is Scout bothered at the beginning of the chapter? | As Jem and Dill grow closer together, she is being left out of the friendship. |
| Instead of playing with Jem and Dill, what does Scout decide to do? | to spend the summer sitting with Miss Maudie on her front porch |
| What is Scout and Jem’s “tacit treaty” with Miss Maudie? | They could explore her back lot and play in her yard. |
| Why is Miss Maudie always outside? | She hates her house. |
| What is the only weed Miss Maudie does not permit to be in her garden, and how does she eliminate it? | nutgrasswith blasts of a powerful poison |
| Miss Maudie makes the best _____ in the neighborhood? | cakes |
| Does Miss Maudie think that Boo Radley is alive or dead? Why? | aliveHe has not been carried out of the house, yet. |
| At what time of the year does Uncle Jack come to visit? | Christmas |
| How does Uncle Jack tease Miss Maudie? | He asks Miss Maudie to marry him so he can get his hands on her goat. |
| How does Miss Maudie describe Mr. Radley? | as a foot-washing Baptist |
| What is a foot-washing Baptist? | a Baptist who thinks everything pleasurable is a sin. |
| How does Scout react when Miss Maudie tells her that some foot-washing Baptists said that she was going to hell? | Miss Maudie is a trustworthy person.Although she does not go around the neighborhood doing good deeds, she never tells on anyone or invades anyone’s private lives. |
| How does Scout describe Miss Maudie’s voice? | It is “enough to shut anybody up”. |
| How does Miss Maudie describe Boo Radley? | as gentleman who always spoke nicely to her |
| How does Miss Maudie respond when Scout asks her if Boo is crazy? | If he wasn’t crazy then, he is crazy now, especially with the fact that he has been indoors and secluded from society for a long time. |
| What must Scout do if she wants to play with Jem and Dill? | She must do everything they tell her to do. |
| At the end of the chapter, what do Jem, Dill, and Scout attempt to do? How? | leave a note for Boo RadleyJem puts the note on the end of a fishing pole and throws it onto the shutter of one of the windows. |
| What role does Dill have in the attempt to give Boo a note? | to ring a bell (Scout’s mother’s dinner bell) if anyone else comes, as well as watching the front of the house from a light-pole |
| What role does Scout have in the attempt to give Boo a note? | to watch the back end of the house |
| Who catches Jem, Dill, and Scout trying to give a letter to Boo? Why is he/she angry? | AtticusThey are trying to invade his privacy and, therefore, are “tormenting” him. |
| How does Atticus make Jem quiet at the end of the chapter? | He tells him that he wanted to be lawyer. |
To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 5
January 26, 2020