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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 does the narrator say about the drawings in Noah's Ark?

2. What is the worst thing about the camper, according to Greg?

3. What about Mom's behavior is making the narrator uneasy the last couple days before the trip?

4. The family quickly jumps into the camper, just in time to see what?

5. What does Mom think of Dad and Rodrick's prank?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator feel about how the summer is going so far? Why does he feel this way?

3. What are two things that the narrator likes about the camper?

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

5. Why does Dad think the national forest would be a good place to go?

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

7. Why are the narrator and his family getting tired of their time together?

8. What does the family discover about Uncle Gary’s camper? How does this change their day?

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

10. What leads the family to choose to go camping?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The characters learn a great deal in this book. What are three things the family learns, as a whole? What evidence in the book supports this? How are they affected by these lessons?

Essay Topic 2

What is the big problem the main characters face at the beginning of the book? How do each of the main characters deal with this? How does this prepare the reader for how the characters handle future mishaps?

Essay Topic 3

From Greg’s perspective, the RV camp is an unruly place. From what you know of the camp, would you agree? Why or why not? Does this sound like a realistic campground experience? Why or why not?

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