Read this excerpt from chapter 1 of to kill a mockingbird and answer the question. dill was a curiosity. he wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duckfluff; he was a year my senior but i towered over him. the author uses the term curiosity to suggest that dill is a child who wants to know many things behaves in an odd manner is undersized dresses formally