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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 find in the hole on the second day?
(a) An old shoe.
(b) A map.
(c) A fossil of a fish.
(d) A nickel.

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

3. Who does Stanley say he has to blame for being at camp?
(a) His dog.
(b) His no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-grandfather.
(c) His no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-grandmother.
(d) His crazy-no-good-lazy-dumb-aunt.

4. Who does Mr. Pendanski say the boys have to blame for being at camp?
(a) Themselves.
(b) Their parents.
(c) Bad luck.
(d) The failed judicial system.

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?
(a) They want to try the lipstick on.
(b) So that they will get more time off.
(c) So they can see if there is anything valuable about the tube.
(d) So they can lie about where they found it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stanley's mother say her apartment smells like?

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

3. What surprises Stanley when he sees the warden for the first time?

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

5. What tradition do the boys have after they finish every hole?

(see the answer key)

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