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Hugo Cabret Quiz
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Hugo Cabret Quiz
Answer from your knowledge of *The Invention of Hugo Cabret*. For short answers, use complete sentences and include a detail from the story.
Plot and Characters
Choose the best answer for Questions 1–4.
1.Where does Hugo secretly live and maintain the clocks?
- In the walls of a Paris train station
- In an abandoned museum
- In a clockmaker’s shop
- In a train carriage
2.What does Hugo hope to repair with the parts he has collected?
- A mechanical automaton
- A pocket watch
- A train engine
- A movie camera
3.How does Isabelle become connected to Hugo’s effort to make the automaton work?
- She has the key that fits it.
- She knows how to build clocks.
- She finds Hugo’s notebook in the station.
- She works for the station inspector.
4.Who is Georges Méliès in the story?
- A toy-shop owner with a hidden past as a filmmaker
- Hugo’s uncle and clockmaker
- A train driver who helps Hugo escape
- The museum guard who finds the automaton
Think It Through
Answer each question in complete sentences. Support your ideas with story details.
5.Why does Hugo keep the station clocks running, and what might happen if he is discovered?
6.How does the automaton connect Hugo to his father?
7.What does the automaton draw when it is finally working? Why is this drawing important to the story?
8.Describe one way Isabelle’s friendship changes what Hugo is able to do.
9.At the beginning, Hugo is secretive and focused on survival. How has his situation changed by the end, and what helped bring about that change?
10.The book uses both words and pictures. Explain how a sequence of events can tell part of the story without a written explanation. Refer to a moment or effect you remember.
11.True or false: Georges Méliès’s history as a filmmaker is connected to Hugo’s automaton.
TrueFalse
12.What is one idea the story develops about finding a purpose after a loss or disappointment? Explain how Hugo or Méliès helps show this idea.
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