1. Chapter Four To Kill a Mockingbird

2. What do Scout’s comments about school suggest?

3. School “Atticus and my uncle, who went to school at home, knew everything...” “Jem, educated on a half-Decimal half- Duncecap basis, seemed to function effectively alone or in a group...” (32)

4. School “... I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.” (33)

5. What are these surprises?

6. Dill returns to Maycomb for the summer vacation rides the train by himself from Meridian to Maycomb saw two twins hitched together on the train his father is taller than Atticus, has a black beard, and is president of the L&N Railroad. Is Dill telling the truth about his father now? (36)

7. What’s a Hot-Steam? “‘Haven’t you ever walked along a lonesome road at night and passed by a hot place?’ Jem asked Dill. ‘A Hot Steam’s somebody who can’t get to heaven, just wallows around on lonesome roads an/ if you walk through him, when you die you’ll be one too, an’ you’ll go around at night suckin’ people’s breath--’” (p. 37)

8. The Tire What happens when Jem rolls Scout in the tire?

9. The kids act out plays Chapter XXV of One Man’s Family “a melancholy little drama” (39) What is the drama?

10. What are the two reasons Scout wants to finish playing the game of Boo Radley, acting out his life? So ends Chapter Four!