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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 does Stanley refuse from Mr. Pendanski after Stanley gets out of the first hole he dug?
(a) A hand shake.
(b) A piece of candy.
(c) A ride back to camp.
(d) A drink of water.

2. What does X-Ray tell Stanley to do with anything else Stanley finds in his holes?
(a) Feed it to the yellow-spotted lizards.
(b) Take it directly to the warden.
(c) Give it to X-Ray.
(d) Put it back in the hole.

3. What does Stanley find odd about his hole when he returns to the dig site after Mr. Sir took him to get in trouble with the warden?
(a) Someone has already dug it.
(b) There is a yellow-spotted lizard in it.
(c) Someone started filling it back in.
(d) The other boys threw trash in it.

4. What happened to Barf Bag, aka Lewis, the boy who had previously occupied Stanley's cot?
(a) He is in the hospital.
(b) He died.
(c) He went home.
(d) He won the lottery.

5. What is not true about the yellow-spotted lizards?
(a) They have black teeth.
(b) They eat sunflower seed shells.
(c) They have red around their eyes.
(d) They have a yellow spotted tongue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Pendanski say is the one real rule at Camp Green Lake?

2. What does Zero give Stanley in return for teaching him something?

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 Stanley pretend that Camp Green Lake is offering him when he writes letters to his mother?

5. Who was the first person that Kate kissed after she killed them, starting the name "Kissing Kate Barlow" and her life as an outlaw?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Stanley offer to teach Zero to read?

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

6. What happens during the digging the day after X-Ray supposedly had found the lipstick tube?

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

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

9. What does the warden do since there was something found presumably where X-Ray had been digging?

10. Describe Camp Green Lake.

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