Characters
He came to Camp Green Lake overweight and accused of having stolen shoes.
Who is Stanley Yelnats.
Why is Camp Green Lake not at all what the name suggests it is?
The lake is dry and the land is now a desert.
What did all the people in the town buy from Sam?
Onions.
What did Hector (Zero) find that kept him alive when he ran off into the desert and what did he call it?
Old canned peaches he called Sploosh
What is interesting and unique about Stanley's first and last names?
His last name is his first name spelled backwards.
Madame Zeroni made Stanley's great-great grandfather strong by making him carry a pig up the mountain, but what did Stanley promise her (not didn't do) in return?
What was Stanley's nickname give to him by the other boys in the camp?
Caveman
Why were the townspeople so upset when they learned that Kate Barlow had kissed Sam?
Because he was a black man and not considered worthy of her.
What was the relationship between Madame Zeroni and Zero?
She was his great-great grandmother.
What was Stanley's father trying to invent?
A cure for stinky feet.
When Zero ran away from camp, what did the Warden do with his records?
She deleted them because he had no family to look for him.
Who is Clyde "Sweet Feet" Livingston?
A famous baseball player who had really stinky feet and whose shoes Zero stole.
Who was Kate Barlow and how did she become kissing Kate?
She was a well respected school teacher who became an outlaw after the town burned down her schoolhouse and killed Sam, whom she loved.
Who stole the shoes of Clyde Livingston originally and how did Stanley get caught with them?
Why didn't Stanley and Zero not get bitten by the yellow spotted lizard?
The lizards don't like the taste of onion blood.
When Stanley stole the water truck, why did he not get very far with it?
He ran it into one of the holes.
Trout Walker (who liked Kate Barlow) married one of Kate's students, Linda Miller Miller. They tried to find where Kate kept her treasure buried. Who was their daughter?
The Warden
Why did Zero dig part of the hole for Stanley each day?
In exchange for Stanley teaching him how to read.
Who kept saying, "I can fix that"?
Sam
What caused the spell that Madame Zeroni put on Stanley's great-great grandfather to be broken?
Stanley carried Zero up the mountain to drink from the stream.