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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Roy have to write as part of his punishment for fighting?

2. What number did the barefoot boy make Roy count to before he could remove his blindfold?

3. How did Roy’s mom react when he brought Beatrice home for the first time?

4. What nickname did Roy refer to Beatrice as in Chapter Four?

5. How did Roy’s mother react to the newspaper story about Officer Delinko’s car windows being spray-painted?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some examples of cliffhangers in this chapter, and why might the author employ them?

2. Why did Officer Delinko offer to personally pay the bill for his patrol car?

3. What aspect of Officer Delinko’s personality is displayed in Chapter Three?

4. What evidence is there for Roy and Beatrice’s relationship beginning to change in Chapter Eight?

5. How does the weather in Chapter Six add to the story?

6. What situation in Montana did the snakes remind Roy of?

7. What did Officer Delinko find inside the portable toilets on the flatbed truck?

8. Roy seems to surprise people a great deal simply by being honest and straightforward. What are some examples of this from Chapter Four?

9. How are animals used as symbolism in Chapter Eight?

10. What situation does the author include at the end of Chapter Seven for humor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Every novel has a genre, a way of categorizing it in literature. What genre is Hoot? What evidence from the book supports your choice of genre?

Essay Topic 2

Authors pick titles very particularly, as they are one of the first ways a potential reader gets to know the book. Why might the author have chosen Hoot as the title of this novel? Do you feel it is an appropriate title? If you had to pick a different title, what would you pick, and why?

Essay Topic 3

The author portrays the characters’ ages well through their speech. What are some examples of how the characters’ speech patterns or verbiage gives away their age? Why might an author do this? Do you think that this author had used this writing technique effectively?

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