TKaM Chapters 11-15

Match the following vocab words to their definitions

• break down or be destroyed

• degenerate

• tendency toward something

• tirade

• resentment

• umbrage

• hide out or walk about with a guilty conscience

• propensity

• long negative speech

• skulk

Match the following vocab words to their definitions

• scornful

• austere

• the right to do something

• contemptuous

• related to a church or religion

• prerogative

• strict or severe

• qualm

• feeling of unease or nervousness

• ecclesiastical

Match the following vocab words to their definitions

• brief in a rude way

• antagonize

• thinking deeply or wistfully

• pensive

• uncertain or not completely agreed upon

• tentative

• cause anger or irritation

• curt

Match the following vocab words to their definitions

• precise and without any extras

• stifle

• useless because a result cannot be achieved

• prevail

• keep down or hold back

• succinct

• to be predominant or most common

• acquiesce

• agree without argument

• futile

What does Mrs. Dubose say that upsets Jem?

• She insulted Jem

• She called Scout ugly

• She said that the two Finch kids wouldn't amount to anything

• She insulted Atticus

What does Jem buy for Scout?

• roller skates

• a baton

• a doll

• a football

What does Jem do when he passes by Mrs. Dubose's house and she isn't on the porch?

• breaks her mailbox

• breaks her front gate

• destroys her flowers

• screams for her to come out

Select everything Jem has to do as his punishment?

• helps clean them up

• helps them grow back

• reads to her

• brings her groceries

What is the reason Mrs. Dubose has Jem read to her?

Why does Calpurnia take Scout and Jem to church with her?

• She wants them to experience her faith

• She isn't comfortable with them going to church alone

• She wants to introduce them to her friends and family

• She thinks they haven't been behaving well