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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Stanley over time at the camp?

2. What reason does Mr. Pendanski give for Mr. Sir being in a bad mood?

3. What does a boy comment on that makes Mr. Sir angry and results in Mr. Sir physically abusing the boy?

4. What does Stanley find in the hole he is digging on the third day and gives to X-Ray?

5. What happened to Stanley's great-grandfather's fortune when he went out west?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Stanley when the boys are all digging in one giant hole?

2. What does Stanley begin to notice changing in himself by Part 1, Chapter 17?

3. What does Stanley tell X-Ray to do with the object he finds on his second day of digging?

4. Describe the shovels and the reason that the kids are given the shovels at Camp Green Lake.

5. What happens at the beginning of the third day of digging?

6. What happened after Kate and Sam were caught kissing?

7. What does the warden do since there was something found presumably where X-Ray had been digging?

8. What does Mr. Pendanski tell the boys during their counseling time in Part 1?

9. How did Kate and Sam get to know each other?

10. How does Stanley handle the fact that he is going to Camp Green Lake?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the situations and actions that had to arise in order to assure that Madam Zeroni's and Elya Yelnats' descendants were both at Green Lake at the same time. Was this luck or destiny? Why did Green Lake's drought seemingly begin and end with the Yelnats' family curse?

Essay Topic 2

What is significant about Hector Zeroni's nickname, "Zero"? Is it possible that both the Zeroni and the Yelnats families were effected by the curse?

Essay Topic 3

Take a look at Kate Barlow's character. Describe the change that takes place when Sam is killed. What shows the change that has happened to her other than the change in her name? (from Kate Barlow to Kissing Kate Barlow)

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