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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 excites Dad about this trip?

2. Why is it hard for the family that Dad is working from home?

3. Why must Greg take a cold shower in the camper?

4. What is the coolest thing about the camper?

5. Why does Mom have the clerk at the camper superstore go over the supplies Dad had picked out?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the family end up getting told they need to leave the forest the next morning?

2. Why does the name of the RV park excite Greg?

3. Why are Mom and Dad excited about the camper, at this point in the story?

4. Why does Greg get sent back to the camper while on the hike in the national forest?

5. Why is the narrator excited about going camping?

6. What are Greg’s safety concerns regarding the RV park?

7. What are two encounters the family has with wildlife in this section of the book? What are the outcomes?

8. Why does the narrator wish he had been born a bit sooner?

9. What is the reason Dad gives for why the family cannot go back home yet, in this part of the book?

10. What are two things that disappoint Greg about the RV park?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Determination is a theme of this book. How is this theme revealed throughout the story? What does this say about the main characters? How does this affect the tone of the book? How does this theme also affect the reader?

Essay Topic 2

The story is from the perspective of a kid. How different would the story be if it were from the perspective of one of the adults? Would the story be as fun to read? Why or why not? Can readers of all ages relate to this story from a kid’s perspective? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

The group of boys use Greg as a scapegoat. How and why does this happen? Are you surprised? Why or why not? How does Greg seem to feel about this? What does this reveal about him?

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