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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 injury does Zero incur while trying to help Stanley up the side of the mountain?

2. What was it that had made Gladys Tennyson's daughter sick?

3. What do the warden and other counselors do when they see the boys covered by deadly creatures in the hole?

4. What does Stanley try to do when the water truck comes to give them water?

5. What does Zigzag offer Stanley that starts a fight in Part 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What surprises Stanley as he walks across the desert after the water truck incident?

2. After recovering on top of the mountain, what do Zero and Stanley plan to do?

3. What happens when the water truck comes to the dig site the afternoon Zero's replacement arrives?

4. What does Zero discover about the metal case he and Stanley have found?

5. Describe the boy that comes to Camp Green Lake to take Zero's place.

6. What stops the warden from taking the metal case from Zero and Stanley?

7. Why was Stanley found innocent of stealing the sneakers?

8. What happened when Trout came back to Green Lake?

9. How has Zero survived the harsh desert for so long when Stanley finds him?

10. What does Stanley learn about Zero's past?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the situations and actions that had to arise in order to assure that Madam Zeroni's and Elya Yelnats' descendants were both at Green Lake at the same time. Was this luck or destiny? Why did Green Lake's drought seemingly begin and end with the Yelnats' family curse?

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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