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

2. What does the warden tell Mr. Pendanski that he is doing wrong after she has brought blood on one of the boys?
(a) Giving them too much water.
(b) Giving them too many breaks.
(c) Not working them hard enough.
(d) Working them too hard.

3. What does a boy comment on that makes Mr. Sir angry and results in Mr. Sir physically abusing the boy?
(a) Mr. Sir's swollen face.
(b) Mr. Sir's stitches.
(c) Mr. Sir's new dog.
(d) Mr. Sir's broken arm.

4. What happens when the bag of sunflower seeds Magnet stole is thrown to Stanley?
(a) Stanley gives them back to Mr. Sir.
(b) Stanley throws them right back.
(c) Stanley saves them for later.
(d) Stanley spills them in his hole.

5. Mr. Sir has a tattoo of ________.
(a) The word "mom".
(b) A skull and bones.
(c) A scorpion.
(d) A rattlesnake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Sir do when Stanley comes to have his canteen filled with water?

2. What does Stanley find in the hole he is digging on the third day and gives to X-Ray?

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

4. What happened to Barf Bag, aka Lewis, the boy who had previously occupied Stanley's cot?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happened after Kate and Sam were caught kissing?

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

6. Describe the yellow-spotted lizards.

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

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

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

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

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