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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 Officer Delinko notice on Dana’s feet in Chapter Fifteen?
2. How did Roy’s dad feel about him leaving school to go to the groundbreaking ceremony?
3. What day were the new machine parts Curly ordered scheduled to arrive?
4. Why did Beatrice leave the hospital?
5. What tool did Mullet Fingers ask Roy to bring with him that night, should Roy decide to meet up with him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What change has occurred in Roy by the end of the novel?
2. What is Roy’s dilemma at the beginning of Chapter Fifteen? What conflicting things does he want to do?
3. Beatrice shows a very caring and maternal side of herself in this chapter. What are some examples of this?
4. 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?
5. Why was Roy surprised by his parents’ reaction to him going to the pancake house groundbreaking ceremony?
6. What were the results of the E.I.S. the Mother Paula Company did and what was done with the report?
7. Why did Roy show himself to his parents at the hospital?
8. What put a kink in Roy’s plan to prove that there were owls living on the construction properly?
9. 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?
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
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 2
Roy shows a maturity beyond most of his peers. What are some examples from the novel of Roy handling a situation maturely? Why do you suppose he takes a mature approach to most things? What are some reasons Roy may be slightly more mature than his peers? Is there a situation in which Roy does not act maturely?
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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