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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. Why doesn't X-Ray inspect the fossil Stanley found?

2. Why does Stanley have a harder time digging the second day?

3. What does the warden poke Armpit with while he is on a bathroom break?

4. What happens when Stanley finishes his first hole?

5. Why did Madam Zeroni try to dissuade Elya from trying to marry Myra Menke?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Kate Barlow and what she was known for in the town of Green Lake.

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

5. What does Stanley say to his mother in his letters home?

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

7. Why did Elya go to Madam Zeroni for help?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did Mr. Sir choose to refuse Stanly any water after Mr. Sir's sunflower seeds were taken? Could there have been better punishment? Describe Mr. Sir and Stanley's stand off regarding the water and what it's really about.

Essay Topic 2

Take a look at Kate Barlow's character. Describe the change that takes place when Sam is killed. What shows the change that has happened to her other than the change in her name? (from Kate Barlow to Kissing Kate Barlow)

Essay Topic 3

Stanley Yelnats has been sent to Camp Green Lake although he did nothing wrong. How would the story have changed, and the reader's perception changed, had Stanley been guilty of a crime?

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