Digging up Definitions
What would Zero do? WWZD
Two peaches in a jar
Camp Green Lake? More like Camp Green Dump
You got bit by a WHAT???
100

"His legs were sore from remaining ______ for so long. Standing still was more strenuous than walking."


1. rigid        2. tedious    3. flecks 

1. rigid 

100

Zero has a stuffed ________ when he was little. 

giraffe 
100

Zero and Stanley lived off of ________.

onions 

100

How had Camp Green Lake changed Stanley?

He liked himself now. 

100

The yellow spotted lizard ate a __________.

Tarantula 

200

The reader probably still has some questions, but unfortunately, from here on in, the answers tend to be long and _______.


1. contaminate   2. incarcerated   3. tedious

3. tedious 

200

While Stanley dug the hole, Zero _____________.

went after water and cereal

200

Neither boy wanted to ___________.

Be the first to drink water

200

In chapters 41-45, what did the boys do after reaching the camp?

The boys waited for the camp to fall asleep. 

200

As Mr. Sir watched the lizards in the hole around Zero and Stanley he started doing what? 

He started smoking a cigarette.

300

"So what are you planning to do with him? Keep him confined indefinitely...?" The Attorney General stared at her. "He was obviously ___________ for a reason."


1. incarcerated   2. pursuant   3. initiate

1. incarcerated 

300

What memory did Zero have from his infancy? 

His mother singing to him. 


"If only... If only..."

300

After Zero and Stanley found the metal case _________________.

the Warden found the boys

300

The day before Stanley and Zero returned to camp _____________. 

a lawyer came and said that Stanley was innocent. 

300

How did Kate Barlow die? 

She was bitten by a yellow spotted lizard.

400

As his tunnel grew deeper and wider- and more ________ - Stanley was able to feel latches on one end of the box, and then a leather handle. 


1. indistinct    2. pursuant   3. precarious 

3. precarious 

400

What did Zero do to get sent to Camp Green Lake?

Zero tried to walk out of a shoe store with a new pair of sneakers. 

400

When Stanley carried Zero up the mountain, it broke the family's curse because _______________. 

Stanley was completing his great-great-grandfather's promise. 

400

In chapters 46-50 what happened to the lake as Stanley and Hector were driving home? 

A drop of rain fell into the empty lake. 

400

Why were Zero and Stanley NOT bitten by the lizards?

The lizards didn't like onion blood.

500

They were still too far away to see the camp, but he could hear a blend of __________ voices. 


1.  pursuant   2. indistinct    3. contaminated

2. indistinct 

500

Zero didn't go to the homeless shelter very often because _________. 

He didn't want to become a ward of the state. 

500

In chapters 41-45, Stanley and Zero decided to _____________. 

dig in the hole where Stanley found the tube

500

What did Camp Green Lake become at the end of the novel? 

A Girl Scout camp. 

500

After finding the suitcase, Stanley discovered he _________________. 

was standing in a lizard's nest

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