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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 is Roy’s best friend?

2. What was the first thing Roy found after moving through the trees that suggested someone was staying in the area?

3. How did Roy’s mom react when he brought Beatrice home for the first time?

4. What did Roy try to bring the barefoot boy in Chapter Six?

5. What is/are mullet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Roy figure out that the barefoot boy is responsible for the alligators in the portable toilets?

2. What happened to Roy when he followed the running boy in Chapter Two?

3. Describe the scene Officer Delinko saw when he was scouting out the construction site at 5 a.m. in Chapter Four.

4. How did the barefoot boy get the nickname Mullet Fingers?

5. Roy seems to surprise people a great deal simply by being honest and straightforward. What are some examples of this from Chapter Four?

6. What did the girl who sought out Roy at the end of Chapter Two want?

7. What did Roy feel was his ‘duty as an only child’ and what does this tell readers about Roy?

8. What aspect of Officer Delinko’s personality is displayed in Chapter Three?

9. How can Beatrice’s parents be described?

10. What happened at the construction site in Chapter Nine to let readers know that the vandal is the barefoot boy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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