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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mom tell Greg regarding how to use the shower and laundromat?
(a) He must use quarters to run the shower and clothes dryer.
(b) He must pay for soap.
(c) He must use only cold water.
(d) He only has five minutes to take a shower or to load a washer.

2. What happens towards the end of the games the boys are playing?
(a) They see a large fish in the water.
(b) They get hit by a flying watermelon.
(c) They get shot at with lawn darts.
(d) They get bitten by a horde of mosquitoes.

3. Why is the camper unable to cross the stream?
(a) It has a flat tire.
(b) The water is too deep.
(c) It is stuck on a large rock.
(d) It is stuck in the muck.

4. Greg ends up washing the shampoo out of his hair where?
(a) In the camper sink.
(b) In the sink at the laundromat.
(c) In the lake.
(d) In the bathroom sink.

5. What takes place that makes the family unanimously agree that things had got very serious?
(a) There are riots breaking out.
(b) The camp is filling with water.
(c) A camper nearby has been tipped over.
(d) The camp director has fled.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Greg try to get out of swimming in the lake?

2. How does Mom feel about the incident in the water?

3. Who does Greg run into on the way back to the camper?

4. What do the boys get from the snack shack to use for attacking the teenagers?

5. What does Greg tell his family, so they can get to the pool party faster?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mom's camera complicate things?

2. What are Greg's thoughts about the guy doing wood carvings at his campsite early Sunday morning?

3. What are two problems Greg encounters, when he arrives at the bathhouse?

4. What upsets Greg the most about the man who takes over his shower? What does he do about it?

5. Why is the canoe available for the family to use?

6. What does Greg want to do on his own? What is his mom' response?

7. How different does the lake look compare to their first glimpse of it on the bridge?

8. What does Greg say about being sprayed by a skunk?

9. What does Greg discover about his family's clothes at the laundromat? What does he do about this?

10. How does Greg lose his shower before he has finished rinsing out his hair?

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