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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 notice on Dana’s feet in Chapter Fifteen?
(a) Sandals.
(b) Sneakers.
(c) Rat traps.
(d) Paint.

2. What did Curly place all around the outside of the trailer?
(a) Rat poison.
(b) An alarm system.
(c) Snake bait.
(d) Rat traps.

3. What body part did Mullet Fingers have a string connected to, which has the other end connected to a bucket?
(a) His foot.
(b) His neck.
(c) His finger.
(d) His tongue.

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

5. Why had Roy really come to Dana’s house in Chapter Fourteen?
(a) To try and pay Dana off.
(b) To talk things out.
(c) To punch Dana.
(d) To tell on Dana.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of tracks did Officer Delinko find near the fence the night before the groundbreaking ceremony?

3. How many kids from Roy’s history class showed up at the groundbreaking ceremony?

4. To what position was Chuck Muckle demoted?

5. What did Roy hear when he prepared to knock on Beatrice’s front door for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Roy underestimate Dana in Chapter Fifteen, and how did that negatively affect Roy?

2. What piece of evidence told Officer Delinko that Dana Matherson wasn’t the person behind the disturbances at the construction site?

3. What does Dana’s dad’s reaction to Roy on his doorstep suggest to readers?

4. What were the results of the E.I.S. the Mother Paula Company did and what was done with the report?

5. What is the irony in what Curly and Officer Delinko were not telling each other at the beginning of Chapter Seventeen?

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

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

8. What was the latest vandalism done at the construction site in Chapter Sixteen?

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

10. What does it say about Curly that he was at the owl sanctuary when Roy and his Dad went to see the owls in the Epilogue?

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