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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. Who is staring over Stanley's shoulder while he writes his letter to his parents?

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

3. Who does Mr. Pendanski say the boys have to blame for being at camp?

4. When Stanley returns to the camp after digging his second hole, what does he find happening?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the warden's reply to Mr. Sir's accusations of Stanley stealing the sunflower seeds?

2. Describe Mr. Sir.

3. What does Stanley find while digging on his second day?

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

5. How does Mr. Sir punish Stanley even though Stanley doesn't say anything about Mr. Sir's discolored face?

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

7. What happens when Magnet steals Mr. Sir's sunflower seeds?

8. What crime is Stanley sent to Camp Green Lake for?

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

10. What does Stanley say to his mother in his letters home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) List several of the boys in Tent D at Camp Green Lake. In what ways are these boys alike?In what ways are they different? Would each of the boys characters fall under "Bad" or "Good"?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the importance that race plays for the characters in the book. In what ways is Sam and Kate's struggle with racism similar to that of the problem that Zero and Stanley face while at camp? In what ways is it different?

Essay Topic 3

Did Sam's onions have healing powers? Why did the people in the town go to see the doctor and take Sam's concoction? Why is it the only place in Green Lake that didn't dry up was Sam's onion field?

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