This is the kind of question you kind of need to read the book or at least some sort of notes thereof.
I was just reading the spark notes version, and I don't think it's very well written but here is the link anyway:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/narrative/context.html
You might ask your teacher if she or he had ever read this book before they started teaching it, and why she can't help you to understand what the book was really about. And why she is giving you the questions out of the back of her study guide rather than actually "engaging" you in a conversation about the book.
The question "to what does Frederick attribute the kindness of Mrs. Auld" isn't very well written:
Other ways of saying it are:
Why does Frederick think Mrs. Auldness is being kind to him?
or
What is the deal with Mrs. Auld being so nice to Frederick, according to him?
I don't know how old you were when you wrote this, but clearly you did not know what the question even meant and you hadn't read or understood the story you were supposed to read. Your teacher is wasting your time... try to find adults who actually know stuff and don't copy their questions out of a book.
They were probably doing the same thing as you, trying to get out of boring school assignments, when they were your age. I wonder why they became a teacher?
Answered Jan 01, 2011
Edited Jan 01, 2011