Hoot Ch. 18- Epilogue

Look at the plot mountain diagram picture for HOOT: Which of the following belong at the EXPOSITION?

• Beatrice rescues Roy from a bullying incident with Dana.

• Roy moves to Florida, and has his first experience with Dana, a bully, on the school bus heading to Trace Middle.

• Curly finds his gun in the porta-potty

• Dana gets arrested and sent to the Juvie detention center.

Which of the following would be a RISING ACTION (event 1-3) in the story according to the plot mountain diagram for HOOT ?

• Coconut Cove, Florida.

• A vandal has pulled stakes out at the construction site and filled the porta-pottys with alligators.

• Roy goes to City Hall to check on the building permits for Mama Paula's Pancake House.

Officer Delinko, now on constant patrol of the construction site with Curly, now discovers the owl nests (trips over one!) and realizes that they are in danger of losing their nesting grounds with the ground-breaking of the pancake house.

• true

• false

Beatrice and Roy get permission from their parents to leave school and attend the pancake house groundbreaking ceremony as advertised in the newspaper.

• true

• false

Why did Roy want to borrow his mom’s digital camera?

• to take a picture of Mullet Fingers for his dad

• to take a picture of the owls to prove they do live and have nests where they want to break ground for a pancake house.

• to take a picture of Beatrice’s soccer team

• to take a picture of the protest

What did Mullet Fingers have inside the bucket at the protest?

• baby owls

• crickets c. phony alligators d. phony snakes

• rubber / fake snakes

The only "proof" Roy had at the ceremony / demonstration was the photographs Mullet Fingers took. Unfortunately, the pictures were ______________.

• great evidence

• fuzzy and unbelievable

• so good they could have been in National Geographic Magazine - Chuck Muckle had to give in to the protest.

Mullet Fingers' way of saving the owls was to ______________.

• climb into one of the dens with only his head sticking out

• climb on tip of the bulldozer and remove the steering wheel

• sing songs about injustice

After Lonna Leeps dramatic concern about her son, what kind of character would you say she is?

• she loves owls and her son so much

• beautiful and caring

• fake, selfish

An idiom is an expression, a figure of speech that doesn't take a literal meaning. "The icing on the cake" doesn't literally mean there is frosting on a cake, but it means the something (like cak)e was already good, now the icing on top makes it soooo sweet and complete and awesome.

Example: Marsha was already the top USA gymnast. Winning a gold medal at the olympics was just icing on the cake.

In "Hoot," what was the "icing on the cake" at the demonstration?

• The soccer team sings.

• An owl shows up.

• Mullet Fingers has no shoes on.