Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key plot points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

Chapters 1-5

Reading Check

1. Why is Noah’s dad, Paine, arrested?

2. What does Paine ask Noah to do?

3. In Chapter 3, what payment does Paine tell Noah to offer Lice?

4. When Noah sees Bull and Jasper in Chapter 5, what do they have in their wheelbarrow?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. In Chapter 2, what joke does Noah make about Jasper’s name and its effect on Jasper’s personality?

2. Where is Noah’s paternal grandfather?

3. According to Noah, what kind of people does Paine say fighting is for?

4. Why do Noah and his sister sneak out of the house at the end of Chapter 5?

Paired Resources

“6 Ways Government Is Going After Environmental Activists” by Jenna Bitar

• An article from the ACLU detailing questionable tactics the US government uses to suppress environmental protest
• This resource relates to themes of the Fragile Environment and Bigshots and Bullies.
• Which of the six tactics explained in the article seems the most problematic to you? Do you think that the government is trying to bully citizens who are engaged in environmental activism? Who is bullying the environmental activists in Hiaasen’s book? Which tactics would be more intimidating—the ones in the article or the ones in Hiaasen’s book?