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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 did Sarah sing to her son Stanley after he was born?

2. What has Stanley been told he will win if he ever finds anything interesting while digging?

3. What does Stanley find in the hole on the second day?

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

5. What does Armpit do when Stanley calls him by his real name, Theodore, instead of Armpit?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain what the routine is like at Camp Green Lake.

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

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

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

6. Describe Mr. Sir.

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the relationship between Zero and Stanley to that of the relationship between Madam Zeroni and Elya Yelnats.

Essay Topic 2

Stanley Yelnats has been sent to Camp Green Lake although he did nothing wrong. How would the story have changed, and the reader's perception changed, had Stanley been guilty of a crime?

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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