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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Stanley's original reply when Zero asks him to teach him to read?
(a) Yes.
(b) You can't learn.
(c) We don't have time.
(d) No.

2. What does the warden poke Armpit with while he is on a bathroom break?
(a) A pencil.
(b) A pitchfork.
(c) A wooden Stake.
(d) A knife.

3. Why does Stanley's family not go to court to defend Stanley?
(a) They have no money.
(b) They are out of town.
(c) Stanley have been in too much trouble already.
(d) Stanley needs to learn a lesson.

4. What does Stanley find in the hole he is digging on the third day and gives to X-Ray?
(a) The fortune.
(b) A map.
(c) A tube of lipstick.
(d) An old shoe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did X-Ray get his nickname?

2. What happens when Stanley finishes his first hole?

3. What does X-Ray tell Stanley to do with anything else Stanley finds in his holes?

4. How did Stanley's great-grandfather make his fortune?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Elya go to Madam Zeroni for help?

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

4. How does Stanley's second hole differ from the first?

5. What does the warden do to Mr. Pendanski while at the dig site?

6. Describe Mr. Sir.

7. How does Stanley's first day of digging go?

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

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

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

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