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To Kill a Mockingbird

Describe how Aunt Alexandra's response to Scout's comment about Walter Cunningham is consistent with her character?

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The Crucible

Explain the dramatic irony when Parris says, "I know that you -- you least of all, Thomas, would ever wish so disatrous a charge laid upon me."

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Explain the satire that Lee uses in this chapter.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Why does Miss Maudie get so angry at Mrs. Merriwheather?

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To Kill a Mockingbird

What evidence of Jem's increasing maturity does Lee include in this chapter?

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Why does Lee select a Cunningham to be the juror who cast the non-guilty votes?

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To Kill a Mockingbird

What does Bob Ewell's confrontation with Atticus foreshadow?

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To Kill a Mockingbird

What is significance of Aunt Alexandra saying, "I'm sorry,brother..." (pg.212) to Atticus?

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Compare Scout and Jem's opinions of the length of the jury deliberations.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

What type of literary device does Atticus use when he says," This case is as simple as black and white?" How is Atticus's choice of words ironic?

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To Kill a Mockingbird

What was Lee's purpose in having Atticus' identify the court as the only place that all men are equal?

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Flowers for Algernon

What serious problem does he discover about gimpy? why does he struggle with it? Whom does he talk to? how does he finally resolve the problem?

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Flowers for Algernon

When he visits alice's class, what happens? explain why alice is upset with him. QUOTE her most revealing statement.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

What does Scout mean when she says that Atticus is, "...the same in the courtroom as he is on the public streets?"

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To Kill a Mockingbird

What is the symbolism of the courthouse lights in the following passage?

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To Kill a Mockingbird

What is the implication of Mr. Gilmer calling Tom a boy? Why is Dill the one who gets upset by these references?

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Why does Lee have Link Deas interrupt the trial?

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To Kill a Mockingbird

What is significance to Tom Robinson admitting that he felt sorry for Mayella? How does Mr. Gilmer further emphasize Tom's error?

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To Kill a Mockingbird

What does Tom mean when he says,"...it were not safe for any n.gger to be in a --fix like that?

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Baylor College Medical School

54 4. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

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To Kill a Mockingbird

What does Lee illustrate with Scout's pity for Mayella?

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Why does Lee begin this chapter with a description of Tom trying to take the oath in this trial?

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Why does Atticus ask Tom about previously being in trouble with the law?

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

34. Explain what Pheobe means when she says, " An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.They done "heard" 'bout you just what they hope done happened" (5).

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