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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. Who celebrates a birthday in Part 2?

2. Why did Linda Miller marry Trout Walker?

3. By Part 2, Chapter 42, what has happened to Stanley for the first time in his life that makes him happy?

4. What do the counselors do when Zero runs away?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Stanley want to go back to camp so badly after finding Zero in the desert?

2. What does Mr. Pendanski say happened when the other couselors and the warden come to investigate the fight between Stanley and Zigzag?

3. What happens when Stanley and Zero are able to make it to the top of the mountain?

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

5. What do Zigzag and the other boys do to Stanley to bait him into a fight?

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

7. What happens when lightning crosses the dark desert sky?

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

9. When Kissing Kate Barlow came back to her town of Green Lake what did she find?

10. What do Zero and Stanley spend their time doing on top of the mountain?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the relationship between Stanley Yelnats and his family. How does this relationship differ from the other kids shown at camp? In what way could Stanley's family relationship have been better?

Essay Topic 2

Compare the relationship between Zero and Stanley to that of the relationship between Madam Zeroni and Elya Yelnats.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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