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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 makes the other boys mad at Stanley?
2. What do Stanley and Zero joke is waiting for them on the top of the mountain?
3. What does Stanley do when Mr. Sir fills his canteen again the first time?
4. What two things do Zero and Stanley pack before heading back to camp from the mountain?
5. What does Stanley find upside-down while walking through the desert alone?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when Stanley and Zero are able to make it to the top of the mountain?
2. What happens when the attorney tries to get Stanley in the car to leave Camp Green Lake?
3. What happens when the water truck comes to the dig site the afternoon Zero's replacement arrives?
4. What happened when Trout came back to Green Lake?
5. Explain how it changes Stanley's situation that Zero is digging for Stanley an hour out of every day?
6. What surprises Stanley as he walks across the desert after the water truck incident?
7. What do Zero and Stanley spend their time doing on top of the mountain?
8. Why does Stanley want to go back to camp so badly after finding Zero in the desert?
9. What embarrassed Hattie Parker?
10. What happens when Zero & Stanley return to camp from the mountain?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 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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