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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. Why did Officer Delinko want to start coming in to his shifts earlier?

2. Where did the barefoot boy lead Roy to when Roy was blindfolded?

3. How many different options did Roy feel he had upon learning that Dana wants to beat him up after school?

4. Where was Roy born?

5. How much did it cost to get the black paint off of the police car windows?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How can Beatrice’s parents be described?

3. Who is Chuck Muckle and what did he order Curly to do?

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

5. How did Curly’s night at the trailer go?

6. Why did the garage chief in charge of fixing Officer Delinko’s car not hide the car keys were Officer Delinko requested?

7. What happened at the construction site in Chapter Nine to let readers know that the vandal is the barefoot boy?

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

9. Who is Kimberly Lou Dixon?

10. What two favors does Officer Delinko ask of Roy while during their drive to Roy’s house, and how does Roy feel about them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Loyalty is a theme in Hoot. Which characters show loyalty? To whom or what, and how do they show it? How important is loyalty to different characters?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Parent-child relationships are a theme that runs throughout Hoot. What are at least three different parent-child relationships in the novel, and how do they compare to one another? What do they have in common and how do they differ?

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