Hoot Study Questions

Pre-reading strategies are often helpful as they help you anticipate important
information in what you will be reading. Prior to reading chapters, you should
look over the questions for that chapter. After reading, you should try to answer
the questions if you cannot answer them, you should go back in the reading
and look for them or re-read that chapter. Please answer these in complete
sentences on a separate sheet of paper. Keep this and your working
documents in your folder.
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 Roy gave to Dana?
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 Roys 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 Roys parents react to Roy getting into trouble at school?

4. What did Garretts mother do for work?

5. What is one thing you learn about Beatrice in these chapters?
6. What happened to Officer Delinkos 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 Delinkos 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 hed seen running ___________.
3. Who is the running boy related to and how?
4. How did the running boy get his nickname?
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 Paulas Pancake commercials?

Chapters 9-10
1. Garrett warned Roy that _____________.
2. Why doesnt 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 Roys father react to the story of Mullet Fingers?
3. What does Mullet Fingers leave on Officer Delinkos patrol car?
4. What advice does Roys mother give him?
5. What happened after Beatrice wrote a letter to Mother Paulas 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 Muckles 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 Paulas is still
going to build a pancake house?
3. What did Kelly Colfax do when she came to Roys house?
4. What was Mother Paulas 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?