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

2. What did Sarah sing to her son Stanley after he was born?
(a) A song about Elya's travel to America.
(b) The pig lullaby.
(c) A song about a treasure.
(d) A song about an apple tree.

3. How many changes of clothes are the boys at Camp Green Lake given?
(a) Three.
(b) They have to share.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

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

5. What is said to be true if a person can see the yellow spots on a yellow-spotted lizard?
(a) You are already dead.
(b) You need to run.
(c) You can smell them.
(d) You are looking at their belly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Zigzag say the warden knows so much about the boys?

2. What happened to Stanley's great-grandfather's fortune when he went out west?

3. What does Mr. Sir have in his mouth when he meets Stanley?

4. 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?

5. Who does Stanley's family say is the cause of their bad luck?

(see the answer key)

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