TKMB 25-26

Why does Scout dislike the current events period?

• She does not think the current events affect the life in Maycomb, so they are a waste of time

• She does not like The Grit Paper

• Her classmates do not understand current events

• The town students receive the newspaper, but the rural students do not

Why does Jem scream at Scout for asking him about Miss Gates?

• Jem liked Miss Gates when she was his teacher

• Scout reminds him of his own feelings about the trial

• Scout kids him about eating all the bananas and drinking the milk

• Jem is tired of all her questions about the trial

This passage illustrates that Scout

• Does not understand the meaning of prejudice

• Is beginning to see that Jem is growing up

• Is learning to see how people can be deceptive

• Does not want to bother Atticus with her question

Which of the following statements by Miss Gates causes confusion for Scout?

• "Hiter is the government"

• "We are a democracy and Germany is a dictatorship"

• "Over here we don't believe in persecuting anybody"

• "Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced"

When Scout says that the state pays teachers to discourage such things as pronouncing "donkey" like "dunkey" (pg. 244), she is being

• funny

• sarcastic

• ironic

• cruel