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1. Who are talking to the girls at the beginning of Chapter 1 and how can the girls be distinguished?

Boys on bikes talk to five sixteen-year-old, fourth-form school girls, who are distinguished from one another by the way they wear their panama hats.

2. Who are the girls at the beginning of Chapter 1?

These girls, along with one other, form "the Brodie set," a select group formed six years before when they were Miss Brodie's elementary-level pupils.

3. For what is Miss Brodie known at her school, and what are a few things she has taught her set?

In their conservative 1930s Edinburgh school, Miss Brodie is known for teaching unconventional subjects. Her students have heard of "Mussolini, the Italian Renaissance painters . . . and the word 'menarche.'" They count on their fingers, albeit quite accurately.

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