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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 39, 40, and 41.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When would Zero go to homeless shelters?
(a) Only in bad weather.
(b) When he was hungry.
(c) When he was scared.
(d) When he felt sad.

2. What did Gladys Tennyson run out of her house to tell Sam?
(a) She wanted to buy his mule, Mary Lou.
(b) That she wanted to buy more of his medicine.
(c) That he shouldn't get involved with a white woman.
(d) That his medicine cured her daughter.

3. What killed Kate Barlow?
(a) A yellow-spotted lizard.
(b) A rattlesnake.
(c) An alligator.
(d) A scorpion.

4. What does the warden try to get the boys to do the day after the lipstick is brought to the warden's attention?
(a) Dig faster.
(b) Have them find the rest of the makeup.
(c) make a full working line to maximize efficiency.
(d) Tell her the exact location it was found.

5. Why do the Zero and Stanley wash their socks in the jars?
(a) To keep the socks cleaner.
(b) So they won't contaminate the water they drink.
(c) To see if they can.
(d) To keep bugs off the socks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does X-Ray do the next morning when Stanley tries to talk about the objective he found digging on the third day?

2. What was Kate missing when Trout and Linda forced her into the desert?

3. What does the warden have Mr. Pendanski do to punish him for not obeying her without question?

4. What does Stanley's mother say her apartment smells like?

5. What does Stanley memorize before he is moved closer to the hole that X-Ray had been digging when he claimed to have found the tube?

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