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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: Who was Simon Finch? |
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: Scout and Jem's ancestor from England
a fur-trapping apothecrary a Methodist who escaped religious persecution a slave owner
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: What is ironic about Simon Finch's religion and his change in profession? |
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: Simon made a good living practicing medicine, and considered himself a good Christian by refraing from putting on expensive clothes or jewlery. Later, he bought three slaves and started his own plantation. |
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: What happened to Jem and Scout's (the narriator's) mother? |
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: She died of a sudden heart attack when Scout was two years old. |
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: Identify the following Characters (include their relation to Scout, and their nick-names when applicable): - Atticus Finch
- John Hale Finch
- Calpurnia
- Charles Baker Harris
- Jeremy Atticus Finch
- Jean Louise Finch
- Miss Stephanie Crawford
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: nick-names are in quotation marks - Scout's father, a lawyer
- Scout's "uncle Jack ", a doctor
- the Black maid that also acts as a seregate mother to Jem and Scout
- "Dill" Scout's neighbohood friend who makes-up scarry stories and lives in Maycomb during summer break
- "Jem" Scout's older brother
- "Scout" The narriator
- the town gossip
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: What are Jem and Scout's summertime boundaries? |
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: (Within calling distance of Calpurnia,) Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose's house two doors to the north, and the Radley Place three doors to the south. They were never tempted to break them. |
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: What did the Radley's do to make themselves Maycomb outcasts? |
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: - they kept to themselves
- they did not go to church
- Mrs. Radley did not cross the street to asssociate with her female neighbors
- the shutters and doors of the Radley house were closed on Sundays
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: What crime did Boo Radley commit that placed him under arrest by the authorities, and later under house arrest, (at the behest of his father,) for over fifteen years? |
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: - disorderly conduct
- disturbing the peace
- assalt and battery
- using abusive and profane langugage in the prescence and hearing of a female
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: How was Boo Radley's stint in jail an act of segregation? |
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: The sheriff didn't put him in jail alongside Negroes, so Boo was locked in the courthouse basement where he almost died of mold from the damp. |
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: What two dares did Dill ask Jem to perform? |
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: - Knock on the Radley's front door
- Go up and touch the Radley house
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: What did Jem, Dill, and Scout see as they stared back at the Radley house? |
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Chapter 1 Plot Summary: Someone from inside the Radley house quickly stared at them. |
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