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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. Why does Stanley tell X-Ray to wait to give what he found in the hole on the third day to Mr. Pendanski until the next day?
(a) So they can see if there is anything valuable about the tube.
(b) So they can lie about where they found it.
(c) They want to try the lipstick on.
(d) So that they will get more time off.

2. What does the warden have Mr. Pendanski do to punish him for not obeying her without question?
(a) Act as a step stool.
(b) Walk back to camp.
(c) Cook dinner for the boys.
(d) Dig Stanley's hole.

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

4. How are the boys supposed to measure the holes that they dig?
(a) With their arms.
(b) They are given rulers.
(c) With their shovels.
(d) The warden comes and measures.

5. What does Stanley's mother say her apartment smells like?
(a) "The Muffin Man."
(b) "Old Mother Hubbard."
(c) "Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater."
(d) "Old Woman in the Shoe."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Stanley have a harder time digging the second day?

2. Which tent is Stanley assigned to?

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

4. What does X-Ray do for Stanley when the boys return from digging in the evening on the day the warden appears?

5. What does Stanley pretend Camp Green Lake is to make it more enjoyable?

(see the answer key)

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