Hugo Cabret Quiz
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Hugo Cabret Quiz
A Clockwork Secret
Hugo Cabret lived behind the clocks in a busy Paris train station. Each night, he climbed narrow passages to wind the station clocks. Since his father had died, Hugo had been trying to repair a small automaton—a mechanical figure that could write. His father had found it in a museum and believed it held a message. The automaton needed a heart-shaped key. Hugo thought the key had been lost, but Isabelle, the goddaughter of the toy-shop owner, wore one on a ribbon. She let Hugo borrow it, and together they started the automaton. Its hand moved across the paper and drew a man beside a rocket that had landed in the moon’s eye. Isabelle recognized the picture as a scene from a film made by her godfather, Georges Méliès. Hugo realized that the automaton’s drawing connected his father’s discovery to Méliès. But Méliès grew angry when he saw the picture. He had once made imaginative films, yet he had stopped working after his career fell apart. Hugo and Isabelle kept asking questions, and Méliès eventually shared his past and his love of filmmaking. Hugo had spent so long hiding and guarding the clocks that he expected to solve every problem alone. Now Isabelle and Méliès were helping him. The automaton had not simply delivered a message: it had brought people together. Hugo began to understand that finding a place in the world could mean trusting others and using what you know to help them.
Check the Clues
Choose the best answer for questions 1–3.
- In a museum gallery
- Behind the clocks in a train station
- In Georges Méliès’s film studio
- In the toy shop
- Open the station’s main entrance
- Start the automaton
- Wind the station clocks
- Unlock Méliès’s film studio
- He climbs the station passages at night.
- He believes the automaton may hold a message.
- He starts trusting Isabelle and accepting help.
- He recognizes the film scene in the drawing.
Read Between the Lines
Use evidence from the passage in your responses.
- Working alone is the surest way to solve a problem.
- Trusting others can help people find their place.
- Machines are more important than people.
- A person should avoid learning about the past.
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