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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. Who called Roy at the beginning of Chapter Thirteen?

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

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

4. How much money was used to bribe Councilman Grady?

5. What type of car did Cuck Mucle and Kimberly Lou Dixon arrive in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Officer Delinko daydreaming about when he tripped over an owl burrow?

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

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

4. What is Roy’s dilemma at the beginning of Chapter Fifteen? What conflicting things does he want to do?

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

6. What did Mother Paula’s ultimately do to try and save their public image?

7. How does Officer Delinko figure out that Dana is not the construction site vandal?

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

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

10. How do Roy’s parents react overall to his involvement with Beatrice and Mullet Fingers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Dana and Beatrice are both have a public persona of being bullies. Are they bullies in all aspects of their lives? What are their home lives like? What do they have in common? How are they different?

Essay Topic 3

Roy’s mother gives him the advice that when a situation is unclear if it is right or wrong, consider what both your head and your heart is saying before deciding which way to go. What is an example from the novel of a dilemma Roy faces where he uses the technique his mother told him about? What does he decide to do ultimately?

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