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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. Who did Roy learn had checked out the missing file from the Town Hall?
(a) Curly.
(b) Beatrice.
(c) Mullet Fingers.
(d) Roy’s Dad.

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

3. How did Dana escape Curly’s grasp at the construction site?
(a) A snake scared Curly away.
(b) He pinched Curly.
(c) He punched Curly.
(d) He threw dirt in Curly’s eyes.

4. Where did Beatrice hide all afternoon?
(a) In Mullet Fingers’ ice cream truck.
(b) In Roy’s backyard.
(c) Under Roy’s bed.
(d) In a tree.

5. When Roy asked Mullet Fingers if he could ask him something, the boy said Roy could ask him anything except what?
(a) His plans for the owls.
(b) His age.
(c) About Beatrice.
(d) His name.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was wrong with the construction machines in Chapter Fifteen?

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

3. What color was Lonna’s hair?

4. What did Mullet Fingers call Roy, which Roy insisted he was not?

5. Where did Roy tell his mother he is headed before dinner at the beginning of Chapter Fifteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Roy’s Parents feel toward Mullet Fingers?

2. 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?

3. What was Curly’s attitude about the owls in Chapter Nineteen?

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

5. How did Mullet Fingers’ mother react at the construction site when she saw him? Why?

6. How does Roy know that his dad cared about the owls too?

7. How does Roy show humility in the Epilogue?

8. What was Mullet Fingers’ final plan to help the owls on the day of the groundbreaking ceremony?

9. What is being suggested about Beatrice’s home life thus far in the novel? Why might she actually be missing from school?

10. What did Roy realize on his family day trip to the Everglades?

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