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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 is the name of the old boat Mullet Fingers and Roy sat on in the middle of the river in Chapter Fourteen?

2. How did Roy’s father react to Roy’s explanation of what was going on?

3. What is Mullet Fingers’ real name?

4. What body part did Mullet Fingers have a string connected to, which has the other end connected to a bucket?

5. Where did Roy send Dana to pick up the hidden object(s)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the emergency room doctor figure out that Beatrice and Roy were lying about what happened to Mullet Fingers?

2. What change has occurred in Roy by the end of the novel?

3. Earlier in the novel, Mullet Fingers tells Roy to ‘think like a criminal.’ How is Roy demonstrating that skill in Chapter Fifteen?

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

5. How did Beatrice really break her tooth?

6. What was Curly’s attitude about the owls in Chapter Nineteen?

7. What very important piece of evidence did Curly find at the construction site, but he didn’t seem to realize its importance?

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

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

10. How did Mullet Fingers break out of Juvenile Detention?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Roy feels very strongly about Montana and Florida. How does he feel about each state? When and how do his feelings about Florida change? What does he ultimately realize?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Roy and Beatrice’s relationship evolves throughout the book. How does their relationship begin, and what does it become? What reasons caused the evolution to occur?

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