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

2. What happens to Stanley over time at the camp?

3. What is not true about the yellow-spotted lizards?

4. What does X-Ray tell Stanley to do with anything else Stanley finds in his holes?

5. What does Zero tell Mr. Pendanski when asked what he wants to do with his life?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Zero want from Stanley?

6. Describe the yellow-spotted lizards.

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

8. What does Stanley tell X-Ray to do with the object he finds on his second day of digging?

9. What does Mr. Pendanski tell the boys during their counseling time in Part 1?

10. What does X-Ray tell Stanley after Stanley has shown his fossil fish to Mr. Pendanski?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Mr. Pendanski's personality. Is he as abusive to the children as Mr. Sir? Why was Mr. Pendanski willing to take the abuse dished out by the warden? Why did Mr. Pendanski insist on treating Zero like he was stupid?

Essay Topic 2

There are many things that Stanley believes to be bad luck because of his family curse. Explain how each thing that happened to him could be looked at as a positive thing since Stanley eventually found the fortune buried by Kate Barlow.

Essay Topic 3

1) List several of the boys in Tent D at Camp Green Lake. In what ways are these boys alike?In what ways are they different? Would each of the boys characters fall under "Bad" or "Good"?

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