IX. Give analysis of the quote:

"Atticus said, 'You've a lot to learn, Jack.' 'I know. Your daughter gave me my first lessons this afternoon. She said I didn't understand children much and told me why. She was quite right. Atticus, she told me how I should have treated her – oh dear, I'm so sorry I romped on her.'"

X. Suggested Essay Topics

1. Compare and contrast Atticus and Jack. Consider their methods of disciplining Scout. How are they the same? How are they different? Which person do you think is more effective in getting the desired result? Why do you believe this is true?

2. Describe the outward pressures on Scout to "become a lady. Do you think Atticus applies the same pressures? Why o why not? Why do you think Atticus behaves in this way.

Chapter 10

I. Study Questions

1. What action of Atticus's makes him unpopular with the community?

2. What is a Jew's Harp?

3. Why does Scout wish her father was "a devil from hell"?

4. Who does Calpurnia warn about the rabid dog?

5. What nickname did Atticus have at one time?

6. Who is Zeebo?

7. What does Atticus break when he went to face the dog?

8. Was it really "a policy of cowardice" that Scout follows when she agrees not to fight anymore about Atticus?

9. Why is Calpurnia supposed to go to the back door at the Radley Place?

10. Why is Miss Maudie upset when Scout talks about Atticus being old?

II. Explain the meaning of the following words:

inconspicuous (adj.); Jew's Harp (n); corncribs (n.); alist (adj.); crook (of his arm) (n.); mad dog (adj. + n.); mausoleum (n.); Providence (n.); torso (n.);

III. Give synonyms for the following words from the chapter:

Danger;	weak, frail;	carefully, cautiously;
strangely;	fight;	characteristics;
sharply;	to be unclear;	principles, elements.

IV. Find in the chapter the English equivalents for the following words and word combinations and remember the situations they were used in:

Отдубасить всласть; петь на радость к.-л.; полон жизни; комар носу не подточит; обыграть; "сколько хватало глаз"; невидимая сила; бить без промаха; самый меткий стрелок; запеть другую песенку; благородная душа.

V. Explain what the following allusion means:

1. Mockingbird.

VI. Pick out the phraseological units from the following sentences and give their Russian equivalents.

1. When Atticus returned he told me to break camp. "Don't you ever let me catch you pointing that gun at anybody again," he said.

2. This was not entirely correct: I wouldn't fight publicly for Atticus, but the family was private ground. I would Fight anyone from a third cousin upwards tooth and nail.

3. Besides that, he wore glasses. He was nearly blind in his left eye, and said left eyes were the tribal curse of the Finches.

4. Jem underlined it when he asked Atticus if he was going out for the Methodists and Atticus said he'd break his neck if he did, he was just too old for that sort of thing.

5. She ran to the front porch, Jem and I at her heels. "You stay in that house!" she yelled.

6. I thought mad dogs foamed at the mouth, galloped, leaped and lunged at throats, and I thought they did it in August.