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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was wrong with the construction machines in Chapter Fifteen?
(a) The keys were missing.
(b) They were out of gas.
(c) They had been spray painted.
(d) The seats were missing.

2. What is the name of the old boat Mullet Fingers and Roy sat on in the middle of the river in Chapter Fourteen?
(a) Beauty Moon.
(b) Molly Moon.
(c) Molly Bell.
(d) The Beatrice.

3. What was the main message of Roy’s mom’s talk with him in Chapter Thirteen?
(a) Roy’s parents were disappointed in him.
(b) Roy was in trouble for lying.
(c) She didn’t believe Roy.
(d) Roy’s parents were proud of him.

4. When the doctor demanded to know Mullet Fingers’ name, what did Roy say?
(a) Andy Leep.
(b) Andrew Leep
(c) Mullet Fingers.
(d) He doesn’t know.

5. What day were the new machine parts Curly ordered scheduled to arrive?
(a) Friday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Monday.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Beatrice hide all afternoon?

2. What was Officer Delinko daydreaming about during his overnight shift?

3. How many hours was Officer Delinko on duty the night before the groundbreaking ceremony?

4. Dana’s dad assumed Roy came to his house for what reason?

5. What was the last day Kimberly Lou Dixon was available to Mother Paula’s?

Short Essay Questions

1. What about the conversation between Roy and his mom seemed to affect her the most?

2. How did the emergency room doctor figure out that Beatrice and Roy were lying about what happened to Mullet Fingers?

3. What woke Officer Delinko up from his daydream during his night shift, and what is the symbolism of this?

4. When Officer Delinko looked for the owls the night before the groundbreaking ceremony, what did he hope?

5. Why was Roy surprised by his parents’ reaction to him going to the pancake house groundbreaking ceremony?

6. What change has occurred in Roy by the end of the novel?

7. What two signs did Curly and Officer Delinko see that suggested something was up the night before the groundbreaking ceremony, and what did they think of those signs?

8. What happened to Kimberly Lou Dixon, according to the Epilogue?

9. How did Roy set Dana up to be blamed for the mischief at the construction site, and how did it backfire on Roy?

10. How did the protest end up becoming successful?

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