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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 did Officer Delinko trip on while daydreaming during his overnight shift?
(a) An owl burrow.
(b) A snake.
(c) Mullet Fingers.
(d) Curly’s gun.

2. What did Officer Delinko drop into Dana’s lap during questioning?
(a) Coffee.
(b) A bribe.
(c) Ice water.
(d) A fake alligator.

3. Why was Dana’s name not used in the newspaper article about his arrest?
(a) He wouldn’t provide his name.
(b) His name was used.
(c) He was not convicted yet.
(d) He was a minor.

4. What did Curly find in the dirt at the construction site in Chapter Sixteen?
(a) Change.
(b) His gun.
(c) Footprints.
(d) A wallet.

5. How is Dana’s dad described?
(a) Short, fat, and unhealthy.
(b) Average height, large muscles, and large mustache.
(c) Tall, broad, and attractive.
(d) Thin, jittery, and unhealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What magazine did Roy look at while waiting in the hospital?

2. What had Curly left at the construction site on accident?

3. What did the doctor say ‘Roy’ will need unless the dogs that bit him are found?

4. What item of his mother’s did Roy’s plan to stop the construction involve?

5. What concerned Roy’s father the most about Roy’s explanation of what was going on?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why might Roy’s dad have acted opposite of what Roy expected? What clue(s) are there that Roy’s dad is up to something?

2. What put a kink in Roy’s plan to prove that there were owls living on the construction properly?

3. What about the conversation between Chuck Muckle and Curly indicates that the company is knowingly breaking a law, and what does this foreshadow?

4. What truth did Roy point out to Dana when he visited Dana at home?

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

6. What was the dichotomy of morals between Mother Paula and Kimberly Lou Dixon?

7. Why was Dana almost certainly facing juvenile hall after being caught at the construction site?

8. Why did Roy show himself to his parents at the hospital?

9. How did Roy know that Mullet Fingers was still nearby and had seen him at the Molly Bell in the Epilogue?

10. Who demonstrates leadership in Chapter Twenty, and in what way(s)?

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