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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 is Zero doing while he and Stanley are trapped in the hole covered in deadly creatures?

2. What is wrong with Zero when Stanley finds him after the water truck incident?

3. What does Zero tell Stanley before he falls to sleep on the mountain in Part 2, Chapter 39?

4. What name does Stanley find on the upside-down object he finds while walking in the desert alone?

5. What does the warden claim Zero and Stanley did when Stanley's attorney arrives?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What embarrassed Hattie Parker?

3. What happens when Zero is questioned about the reading lessons Stanley is giving him?

4. What encourages Stanley as he walks through the desert alone after the water truck incident?

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

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

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

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

9. What happens when the attorney tries to get Stanley in the car to leave Camp Green Lake?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Did Sam's onions have healing powers? Why did the people in the town go to see the doctor and take Sam's concoction? Why is it the only place in Green Lake that didn't dry up was Sam's onion field?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the ways that Sam's onions helped Stanley and Zero in the book. In what ways is this different that the way they had helped the town so long ago? In what ways is it similar?

Essay Topic 3

What is significant about Hector Zeroni's nickname, "Zero"? Is it possible that both the Zeroni and the Yelnats families were effected by the curse?

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