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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Stanley decide not to go to the warden directly with what he finds in a hole on the third day of digging?
(a) He had made a blood pact with X-Ray.
(b) He doesn't believe the warden will find it interesting.
(c) He is afraid of X-Ray.
(d) He doesn't trust the warden.

2. What does X-Ray do for Stanley when the boys return from digging in the evening on the day the warden appears?
(a) Makes a place for Stanley next to him.
(b) Gives Stanley some of the extra food he got.
(c) Gives Stanley a phone call.
(d) Has Stanley trade cots.

3. What does Mr. Sir do when Stanley comes to have his canteen filled with water?
(a) Gives Stanley's water to X-Ray.
(b) Pours Stanley's water on the ground.
(c) Refuses to give Stanley any water.
(d) Spits in Stanley's water.

4. What happened to Barf Bag, aka Lewis, the boy who had previously occupied Stanley's cot?
(a) He won the lottery.
(b) He is in the hospital.
(c) He died.
(d) He went home.

5. How many changes of clothes are the boys at Camp Green Lake given?
(a) They have to share.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

6. What happens to Stanley over time at the camp?
(a) He begins to get sick.
(b) He makes friends with Mr. Pendanski.
(c) He starts to hate the camp.
(d) He grows stronger.

7. Which tent is Stanley assigned to?
(a) Tent 123.
(b) Tent S.
(c) Tent D.
(d) Tent A.

8. What does Stanley find in the hole on the second day?
(a) A nickel.
(b) An old shoe.
(c) A map.
(d) A fossil of a fish.

9. How does Zigzag say the warden knows so much about the boys?
(a) Mr. Sir's detailed reports.
(b) Evil gnomes.
(c) Satellites.
(d) Microphones and cameras.

10. Who did something to Stanley's hole while Stanley was away talking with the warden?
(a) Zero.
(b) Lumpy.
(c) Magnet.
(d) X-Ray ordered the other boys to dig it.

11. What does the warden tell Mr. Pendanski to do that he has already done?
(a) Wash the truck.
(b) Rub her feet.
(c) Bring the boys a snack.
(d) Fill the canteens.

12. What does X-Ray tell Stanley to do with anything else Stanley finds in his holes?
(a) Take it directly to the warden.
(b) Put it back in the hole.
(c) Feed it to the yellow-spotted lizards.
(d) Give it to X-Ray.

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

14. Who does the warden have fill the canteens after Mr. Pendanski hesitated?
(a) Zero.
(b) Stanley.
(c) Mr. Sir.
(d) X-Ray.

15. What happened to Stanley's great-grandfather's fortune when he went out west?
(a) It was taken by Indians.
(b) It was stolen by Kissing Kate Barlow.
(c) He lost it in the desert.
(d) The government took it.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Why does Stanley's family not go to court to defend Stanley?

3. What does Mr. Pendanski say is the one real rule at Camp Green Lake?

4. What did Sarah sing to her son Stanley after he was born?

5. Why does the warden lose interest in the digging project?

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