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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 tell his mom about Mullet Fingers’ mom, which greatly concerned her?

2. What day were the new machine parts Curly ordered scheduled to arrive?

3. What time did Officer Delinko fall asleep on his night shift at the beginning of Chapter Nineteen.

4. What was Officer Delinko relieved about when he saw Roy in the hospital?

5. What type of book did Roy use in his explanation to his father?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Roy incite Dana to chase after him in the first place?

2. Why might Roy’s dad have acted opposite of what Roy expected? What clue(s) are there that Roy’s dad is up to something?

3. 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?

4. When Officer Delinko looked for the owls the night before the groundbreaking ceremony, what did he hope?

5. When things are hard, Roy often daydreams about Montana. What causes him to think about Montana in this chapter, and why might he keep going back to thought of his former state?

6. What put a kink in Roy’s plan to prove that there were owls living on the construction properly?

7. Beatrice shows a very caring and maternal side of herself in this chapter. What are some examples of this?

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

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

10. How did Roy show his friendship and loyalty to Beatrice in Chapter Sixteen?

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

Nature is a motif throughout Hoot. What role does nature play in the story? Which characters have a relationship with nature, and what is that relationship?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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