About the book
The novel is narrated (told) from which point of view?
A) 1st person
B) 2nd person
C) 3rd person
C) 3rd person narrator
Latvia
What two things save Stanley and Zero as they are close to dying on top of God's thumb?
Onions and (muddy) water
Who is Ms. Morengo?
A lawyer who helps get Stanley and Zero out of the camp.
What was Kate Barlow's job before she became an outlaw?
A school teacher
Give one example of when Stanley showed courage.
When he stood up to Zigzag
When he stole the water truck to save Zero
When he carried Zero up the mountain
What was the secret to good health at Green Lake 110 years before Stanley was sent there?
Onions
What is sploosh?
Canned peaches. Also the name of Stanley's father's invention to eliminate foot odor.
What does Squid ask Stanley to do before Stanley leaves?
He gives Stanley his mother's phone number and asks Stanley to call her and say that Alan (Squid) is sorry.
What is the true last name of the Warden?
Walker (so she's a descendant to Trout)
Texas
What happened when Sam kissed Katherine?
Hattie Parker said God would punish them, and Sam was eventually killed.
Why did the yellow spotted lizard jump off from Stanley in the end?
To eat a tarantula (spider)
What did Hector spend his money on from the treasure?
A private investigator to find his mother.
What did Stanley do to help Zero as they walked toward the thumb?
Stanley spelled words for Zero
Who is the author?
Louis Sachar
Why does Elya Yelnats tell Myra Menke to "marry Igor"?
Myra can't decide between him and Igor
Why weren't Stanley and Zero bitten by the lizards in the end?
Because of the onions they'd eaten.
What are they turning Camp Green Lake into after the novel's end?
A camp for Girl Scouts
According to Stanley, how is the "curse" on his family broken?
The curse was broken when the great great grandson of Elya Yelnats carried the great-great-great grandson of Madame Zeroni down the mountain.
How many chapters is the book?
50
Why was Elya and his family cursed?
He didn't fulfill his promise to Madame Zeroni, since he didn't carry her up the mountain.
What's special about the bite from a yellow-spotted lizard?
It's always fatal (deadly)
The sneakers were stolen at 3:15 pm but Derrick Dunne said that at 3:20 Stanley was still fishing his notebook from the toilet in the boy's bathroom. This proved that Stanley didn't steal the sneakers.
Why did Kate Barlow "die laughing"?
She knew that Trout and Linda would never find the treasure after she had been bitten by the Yellow Spotted Lizard