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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 magazine did Roy look at while waiting in the hospital?

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

3. When the doctor demanded to know Mullet Fingers’ name, what did Roy say?

4. Where did Beatrice and Roy tell the doctor that Mullet Fingers was bitten?

5. What did Curly hear the night before the groundbreaking ceremony?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Chuck Muckle’s response to Curly’s questions about the owls tell readers?

2. What did Roy see in the newspaper that upsets him?

3. What two things does Roy leave out of his explanation to his dad about Mullet Fingers?

4. What was Roy’s plan involving his mother’s camera?

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

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

7. How does Roy show humility in the Epilogue?

8. What happened to Kimberly Lou Dixon, according to the Epilogue?

9. What two signs did Curly and Officer Delinko see that suggested something was up the night before the groundbreaking ceremony, and what did they think of those signs?

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

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

The author includes multiple pop culture references that date the book in current times. What cultural and pop culture references can you note from the book? What year or decade would you guess this story is set in, and why?

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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