Hoot Study Questions

Chapters 1-2

  1. Give two descriptors of Dana Matherson.
  2. What are two strange things about the running boy.
  3. What is the nickname Dana gave to Roy?
  4. What does the book say Dana smells like?
  5. What was the vandalism that Curly reports to the police station?
  6. Officer Delinko tripped over ______on the construction site.
  7. How did Curly respond when Officer Delinko asked him what would happen to the owls?
  8. Why did Roy’s family move so much?
  9. What did Roy have to do to get off the bus in a hurry?
  10. The chase ended when Roy was ______.
  11. What did Roy do to Dana?
  12. What did Roy have to do for punishment?

Chapters 3-4

  1. Curly called Officer Delinko to the construction site a second time because ______.
  2. What was in the Travelin’ Johnny?
  3. How did Roy’s parents react to Roy getting into trouble at school?
  4. What did Garrett’s mother do for work?
  5. What is one thing you learn about Beatrice in these chapters?
  6. What happened to Officer Delinko’s car and why?

Chapters 5-6

  1. Roy found ______in the third plastic garbage bag.
  2. What was peculiar about the snakes?
  3. Roy escaped the grizzly bears by ______.
  4. What was Officer Delinko’s punishment for falling asleep on the job?
  5. What did Roy find when he reached the campsite of Mullet Fingers?

Chapters 7-8

  1. Beatrice and Roy got to the junkyard by ______.
  2. Roy brought the kid he’d seen running ______.
  3. Who is the running boy related to and how?
  4. How did the running boy get his nick name?
  5. What did Beatrice do to the tire and why?
  6. Why is Chuck Muckle so upset with Curly?
  7. Why does Miss Kimberly Lou Dixon have a limited window of availability to film the Mother Paula’s Pancake commercials?

Chapters 9-10

  1. Garrett warned Roy that ______.
  2. Why doesn’t Roy try daredevil stunts like most boys his age?
  3. What does Curly see when he arrives at the construction site?
  4. What was the unusual thing he noticed about the Cottonmouths?
  5. How did Dana catch Roy on his way to the school bus?
  6. Who rescues Roy from Dana?
  7. What happens to Dana?
  8. What happened to Mullet Fingers?
  9. Why did they take hamburger with them?

Chapters 11-12

  1. When Officer Delinko stops by the construction site, he finds ______.
  2. For protection, what does Curly have on the construction site?
  3. Curly accidentally shoots ______.
  4. Why does Officer Delinko go to the Eberhardts’ home?
  5. Where do Beatrice and Roy take Mullet Fingers?
  6. Why are the Eberhardts confused when they get to the hospital?

Chapters 13-14

  1. When Roy was summoned to the den, he showed his father ______.
  2. How does Roy’s father react to the story of Mullet Fingers?
  3. What does Mullet Fingers leave on Officer Delinko’s patrol car?
  4. What advice does Roy’s mother give him?
  5. What happened after Beatrice wrote a letter to Mother Paula’s company?

Chapters 15-16

  1. What did Roy do to convince Dana to come outside?
  2. Roy told Dana he wanted to give him ______.
  3. What happened when Dana tried to enter the trailer at the construction site?
  4. What lie did Dana tell Curly?
  5. Dana was unable to escape Officer Delinko because ______.
  6. What does Curly discover while he is looking for his gun?

Chapters 17-18

  1. Chuck Muckle’s answer to the burrowing owls was ______.
  2. At lunch, Roy learned ______.
  3. What does Officer Delinko do to test Dana?
  4. Roy bought ______for the owls to eat.
  5. Curly told Roy the owls were really ______.
  6. How did Beatrice break her tooth?
  7. What does Roy discover about the permits at City Hall?
  8. How does Roy decide to help the owls?

Chapters 19-20

  1. What did Officer Delinko want to do about the owls?
  2. When Roy told everyone at the groundbreaking ceremony about the owls, Chuck Muckle said ______.
  3. No one could go after Mullet Fingers because he had ______.
  4. After Chuck Muckle “killed” the rubber snakes, he ______.

Chapters 21-End

  1. Mullet Fingers’ real name was ______.
  2. What happened when the reporter asked Mr. Muckle if Mother Paula’s is still going to build a pancake house?
  3. What did Kelly Colfax do when she came to Roy’s house?
  4. What was Mother Paula’s file missing?
  5. Where did the report turn up?
  6. Why was Mullet Fingers sent to a juvenile detention center?
  7. How did Mullet Fingers leave Roy a sign that he was well when he left the detention center?