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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 does Stanley's mother say her apartment smells like?

2. What feeling does Mr. Sir tell Stanley that Stanley will have for the next eighteen months?

3. Why does Stanley decide not to go to the warden directly with what he finds in a hole on the third day of digging?

4. What does the warden try to get the boys to do the day after the lipstick is brought to the warden's attention?

5. What does Stanley offer to do for Zero to pay him back for what he did to Stanley's hole while Stanley was away talking with the warden?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the warden ask Stanley to bring her when Mr. Sir takes him in for stealing sunflower seeds?

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

3. What does Zero want from Stanley?

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

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

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

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

8. Describe Camp Green Lake.

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

10. What does Stanley suddenly realize about the initials on the tube of lipstick that X-Ray gave to the warden?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the relationship between Stanley Yelnats and his family. How does this relationship differ from the other kids shown at camp? In what way could Stanley's family relationship have been better?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

There are many changes that take place in Stanley. Compare the differences in Stanley's character from before Camp Green Lake, during the cruelty he endured there, and after he was released and had the fortune.

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