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Who is Mr. Pendanski?
The employee at Camp Green Lake who is the counselor of D tent.
What did the boys at Camp Green Lake have to do every day?
Dig holes.
What are the labels on each tent at Camp Green Lake?
A, B, C, D, E, and F.
A prayer for harm or injury to come upon a person.
Curse.
How long were the boys at camp allowed to use the shower?
Four minutes.
How did Stanley call Elya Yelnats?
No-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.
What crime was Stanley accused of doing?
Stealing a pair of sneakers.
The nearest water source out the Camp could be found in the next ___________.
100 miles
A swelling of the skin in a circular shape that hurts.
Blister.
Who is Barf Bag? (or Lewis)
The boy who slept in Stanley's cot prior to Stanley's arrival at Camp Green Lake.
Who is Stanley Yelnats?
A young man whose generations of bad luck end up causing him to be sent to Camp Green Lake.
What was the first interesting thing that Stanley found while digging his hole?
A fish fossil.
What is Texas?
The state in which Camp Green Lake is located.
Barren, deserted, uninhabited.
Desolate.
Why did Stanley lie to his mother in his letters?
It is because he didn't want her to worry about him.
Who is Madame Zeroni?
The name of the gypsy woman who cursed Stanley's family.
Why did Stanley's great grandfather lose his entire fortune when he was moving to California?
Because he was cursed by Madame Zeroni
What is W-R-E-C-K room?
The room where the boys are allowed to hang out after finishing their hole each day.
Free from moral wrong.
Innocent.
What was Stanley's father trying to do?
Find a way to recycle old sneakers.
What is the nickname of Stanley?
Caveman.
Why wasn't Elya married to Myra?
He realized that Myra was as empty as a flowerpot.
What is the only plant life at Camp Green Lake?
The two trees just outside of the Warden's cabin.
To remove by digging.
Excavate.
Madame Zeroni would help Elya in exchange for _______.
a trip to the mountain to drink from the spring