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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapters 14, 15, and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zero tell Mr. Pendanski when asked what he wants to do with his life?
(a) He likes to dig holes.
(b) He tells Mr. Pendanski to shut up.
(c) He wants to be president.
(d) He wants to be a policeman.

2. What is Stanley's father's profession?
(a) Bank Teller.
(b) Camp Councilor.
(c) Factory Worker.
(d) Inventor.

3. Where did X-Ray get his nickname?
(a) X-Ray correctly guessed what was in a metal box.
(b) Pig Latin.
(c) His mother.
(d) It is a joke among the boys.

4. What does X-Ray tell Stanley to do when they line up for water in Part 1, Chapter 13?
(a) Go to the front of the line.
(b) Take X-Ray's cantine and fill it.
(c) Move ahead of Zero.
(d) Go back to work.

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?
(a) The hole the tube had originally been found.
(b) How many steps it is from one hole to the next.
(c) The location of the sun.
(d) The phrase that the warden uses when talking to Mr. Pendanski.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have the boys nicknamed Mr. Pendanski?

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

3. What is not true about the yellow-spotted lizards?

4. Why is the "rec room" referred to as the "wreck room"?

5. Why did Madam Zeroni need someone to carry her to the top of the mountain?

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