Hoboken Chicken Emergency Questions
1) When was this book written? How do you know it’s old?
2) What does your family eat for Thanksgiving? Why did his parents not understand why it was important to have a turkey?
3) Would you have rung that doorbell?
4) Do you want a pet chicken?
5) Why didn’t his family eat a chicken?
6) What do people do with their dogs every day in Hobokken when this book was written? Would you do that now?
7) Why do you think the news thought the chicken was 15 feet tall and 1000 pounds? Did you think it was a different chicken or did you agree with Arthur?
8) Do you think the schools should shut down if there really was a 15 foot chicken around?
9) What line on page 72 makes it obvious that this sentence was rewritten in 1999 from the 1977 version? (Did anyone read the 1977 version?)
10) Was Anthony DePalma a real chicken hunter? Were there really giant chickens in florida and a nasty duck in Larchmont?
11) Who is doctor Hsu? Why does he say he doesn’t know where the chicken came from in the first place?
12) How do they get Henrietta to calm down? Do you think that if people treated you the way they treat Henrietta that you would become mean too?