Thinking Problem
Chapters 1-5
1.What is the worst thing that can happen to you at Camp Green Lake?
2.Why did some campers allow themselves to be bitten by scorpions or rattlesnakes?
3.Use the book to tell how Stanley felt about the judge's decision to send him to Camp Green Lake.
4.How did Camp Green Lake differ from Stanley's idea of camp?
5.Why were there no guard towers or electric fences at the camp?
6.What was the most important rule at Camp Green Lake?
7.Why do you think the boys at the camp called Mr.Pendanski“Mom”?8.How had Stanley's great-grandfather lost his fortune?
9.What must the boys at Camp Green Lake do every day?
10.What did Stanley's father do?What was his latest project?
Chapters 6-10
11.Why did the baseball schedule delay Stanley's trial?
12.What did Stanley think when the sneakers fall on his head?
13.According to Mr.Pendanski，why were the boys digging holes every day?
14.How did each boy know that his hole was exactly five feet wide and five feet deep?
15.What advice did Madame Zeroni give Elya?
16.What part of the agreement did Elya fail to keep?What did Madame Zeroni say would happen if Elya didn't keep his promise?
17.Why did Elya look for Madame Zeroni's son once he arrived in America?
18.Chapter 8 is entirely dedicated to the description of yellow-spotted lizards.What might the author be foreshadowing by devoting an entire chapter to details about the yellow-spotted lizards?
19.Why did Stanley lie about Camp Green Lake when writing to his mother?
20.Why did Mr.Pandanski laugh when Stanley expected a day off for finding a rock with a fossilized fish?
Chapters 11-15
21.Which of the boys was the understood leader?How do you know that?
22.What did X-Ray ask Stanley to do the next time he found something?
23.Why did Stanley agree to give anything he found to X-Ray?
24.How did the engraved design found on the bottom of the tube relate to the plot?
25.Use the text to tell why Stanley was hesitant to give the tube he found to X-Ray?
26.At the end of Chapter，X-Ray told Stanley to move up one place in line.What might this indicate?
27.How did Stanley know that they wouldn't find what the Warden was looking for?
28.Why did X-Ray refuse to discuss the gold tube with Stanley at breakfast?
29.How did X-Ray start to become paranoid about the Warden watching them?
30.Why did Stanley conclude that they were not digging holes just to build character?
Chapters 16-20
31.Why did Stanley's mother say she was proud of him?
32.How did the Warden's attitude toward the boys change as they continued digging and widening their holes in Chapter 16 and 17?
33.How did Zigzag release his anger toward Stanley?
34.What did Zero want Stanley to teach him to do?
35.The author writes that“(Stanley's)muscles and hands weren't the only parts of his body that had toughened over the past several weeks.His heart had hardened as well.”What does the author mean?
36.What did Stanley witness at the beginning of Chapter 19?What did this tell about Squid?What might this indicate about the other boys in Group D?
37.What did Magnet steal from Mr.Sir?
38.Why do you think Stanley took the blame?
39.Why was Stanley surprised to find holes close to the Warden's cabin?
40.When Stanley was sent to the Warden for stealing sunflower seeds，what did she do to him?
Chapters 21-25
41.How did Stanley guess that it was Zero who had been digging his hole while he was at the Warden's?
42.Why did Stanley agree to teach Zero to read and write?
43.In what school subject did Zero excel?
44.What conclusion did Stanley reach about the gold tube?
45.How did Green Lake of Katherine Barlow's time contrast with Green Lake of Stanley's time?
46.Where did Sam get the onions he sold to the townspeople of Green Lake?
47.After the Warden punished Mr.Sir，how did he get even with Stanley?
48.Why wasn't Sam allowed to attend Katherine's class?
49.What repetition can you find in Chapter 25?What does this repetition emphasize?
50.Why do you think Hattie Parker said“God will punish you”when she saw Sam kiss Katherine Barlow?
Chapters 26-30
51.Why did Trout Walker lead the angry mob to destroy the schoolhouse?
52.How did Sam die?
53.What was Zero's real name?What was the significance of Zero's real name to Stanley's family history?
54.What did Stanley think he saw in the flashes of lightning?
55.How did the town of Green Lake change 20 years after Sam got killed?
56.Why did Trout threaten to kill Kate Barlow?
57.Why did the boys give Stanley a hard time about being“better”than them?
58.Using evidence from the text，describe the events that lead to Zero taking off into the desert by himself.
59.Why did Zero hit Mr.Pandanski with a shovel?
60.Why didn't anyone try to prevent Zero's escape when he ran away from the camp?
Chapters 31-35
61.Why did Stanley dig Zero's hole after Zero ran away?
62.How did the Warden plan to cover up Zero's disappearance?
63.Who arrived at Camp Green Lake?Why was he sent there?
64.Why did Stanley steal the water truck?
65.What happened to the water truck?
66.Why did Stanley decide to go after Zero in the desert?
67.What dangers did Stanley face in the desert?
68.Why did Stanley walk toward the mountain that looked like a fist?
69.Where did Stanley find Zero?
70.How did Zero survive?
Chapters 36-40
71.At the beginning of Chapter 36，what did Stanley and Zero resolve to do?
72.Why did the boys keep the pieces of the jar that broke?
73.As Stanley and Zero journeyed toward Big Thumb，they gave each other the thumbs-up sign.What is the generally accepted meaning of this gesture?
74.How did Stanley help Zero continue toward the mountain?
75.Why did Stanley have to carry Zero up the mountain?
76.What had Elya Yelnats failed to do for Madame Zeroni?How did Stanley fulfill the promise for generations later?
77.What did Zero confess to Stanley?
78.Why did Stanley decide that he was glad that the shoes hit him on the head?
79.What saved Becca Tennyson when she almost died from eating spoiled meat?How did this story relate to Stanley and Zero?
80.How would you describe Big Thumb?
Chapters 41-45
81.Describe what you learn about Zero's life before Camp Green Lake.
82.Use the text to describe what plan Stanley camp up with to keep them from having to return to Camp Green Lake.
83.Explain Stanley and Zero's plan for returning to Camp Green Lake.
84.Why was Stanley and Zero's return to camp easier than their departure?
85.How did Zero demonstrate his skill during their return trip?
86.While looking for the treasure，why didn't Stanley dig the hole deeper?
87.When he had the box partly exposed，why didn't Stanley just dig down to it?
88.What happened just as Stanley and Zero lift the suitcase out of the hole?
89.What did the Warden mean when she said that the boys had been a big help?
90.At the end of Chapter 45，the author writes，“Stanley could hear his heart beat.Each beat told him that he was still alive，at least for one more second.”Would you call this a positive or negative statement?Why?
Chapters 46-50
91.What did Mr.Sir reveal to Stanley about his guilt?
92.How did Stanley divert his fear when he and Zero were stuck in the lizard-infested hole?
93.What did the lizards do as the sun rose?
94.Why did the Warden assume that the lizards were not hungry?
95.Why didn't the lizards bite Stanley and Zero?
96.What do we learn about the Warden's childhood?What did this tell us about how she spent her life?
97.Who were the two people who arrived in the morning?
98.How did Zero's reading ability help to keep the suitcase in Stanley's possession?
99.Why did Stanley's lawyer feel justified in taking Zero away from the camp along with Stanley?
100.What was significant about the day Stanley's father invented his cure for foot fungus?What did this suggest?
Possible Answers(www.xing528.com)
Chapters 1-5
1.You can be bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard.
2.Some of the campers，fed up with hard labor，would look forward to a non-fatal scorpion sting or rattlesnake bite in order to be sent away to the hospital.
3.Stanley was looking forward to going to Camp Green Lake because he had never been to a camp before.
4.Stanley had imagined all camps to be beautiful places where children went in the summer to have fun.Camp Green Lake，however，was a harsh juvenile detention center set in the middle of a dried-up lake bed where children were forced into hard labor.
5.Because the only water within 100 miles was at Camp Green Lake.It would be so hard for the campers who ran away from the camp to survive without water in the barren and desolate desert.
6.Don't upset the Warden.
7.Because he took care of them，taught them and mothered them.
8.He lost his fortune to Kissin'Kate Barlow who robbed his stagecoach.
9.Each boy must dig one hole every day.The hole must be five feet deep and five feet across.
10.Stanley's father was an inventor.He was trying to invent a way to recycle sneakers.Chapters 6-10
11.Because Clyde Livingston was playing baseball and was not available to testify at the trial.
12.Stanley thought they would be perfect for his father's scientific experiments.This was too much of a wonderful coincidence，he thought，to be anything but a“gift from God.”
13.Because Mr.Pendanski said that the boys were digging to build character.
14.He measured the depth and width with his five-foot-long shovel.
15.Madame Zeroni told Elya that he was too young to get married，that Myra was beautiful but shallow，and that Elya should go to America.“That's where your future is.Not with Myra Menke.”
16.As part of the agreement，Elya was to carry Madame Zeroni up the mountain on the last day.Madame Zeroni warned him that if he failed to do this，he and his descendants would be cursed for all eternity.
17.Because he looked for Madame Zeroni's son in the hope that he might be able to fulfill his promise to Madame Zeroni in some way.
18.The author is strongly suggesting that yellow-spotted lizards will have a role to play in the story.We have already been told that Mr.Sir ate sunflower seeds，so it was significant that the author specifically mentioned sunflower seed shells as being part of the diet of yellow-spotted lizards.The author may be foreshadowing a confrontation between Mr.Sir and a yellow-spotted lizard.
19.Because he didn't want her to worry.
20.Because he didn't think the Warden would be interested in the rock.
Chapters 11-15
21.X-Ray was always at the front of the water line no matter who got there first.
22.He wanted Stanley to give him anything else he found.
23.Because he wanted the acceptance of the leader of the group of boys，and thus the acceptance of the others as well.
24.Stanley had seen the engraved initials K.B.before.They were digging to find more treasure related to the tube.
25.Because Stanley wanted to keep the tube for himself.He found it and thought he deserved some time off.
26.This indicates Stanley's status in the group was changing.When he first arrived，he was placed at the end of the line，behind Zero.Now he'd been moved ahead one place.
27.Stanley knew they would not find anything because he had found the gold tube in his own hole.When he gave it to X-Ray，the Warden assumed，naturally，that it was found in X-Ray's hole，and ordered the boys to continue digging there.
28.Because he believed the Warden had hidden cameras and microphones to spy on the boys.
29.X-Ray told Stanley that they were being watched in their tents，in their wreck rooms and in the showers.
30.Because Stanley concluded that the purpose of the boys'digging was not to build character，but to find something valuable.This became clear when the Warden organized the digging routine and remained on the site.
Chapters 16-20
31.Because she thought Stanley could fit in well，making the best of a bad situation.
32.The Warden began to lose patience with the boys.Earlier she had made sure that the boys'canteens were full.She stayed at their site，assuring them that they were doing fine.In Chapters 16 and 17 the Warden grew less patient.She ordered the boys to work faster and longer，and she criticized their digging.She even jabbed Armpit with her pitchfork when he returned from taking a bathroom break.
33.He hit Stanley in the head with a shovel.
34.He wanted Stanley to teach him to read.
35.To be“hard-hearted”means to be cold and unfeeling.The author means that Stanley's behavior toward Zero was cold.Zero wanted someone to teach him to read，and Stanley refused to try.He also accepted everyone else's assessment of Zero，that“Zero was nobody.”He was demonstrating an unfeeling，uncaring attitude toward Zero.
36.Stanley was awakened in the night to the sound of Squid crying.This reminded us that he acted tough on the outside，but Squid was quite lonely or afraid on the inside.This likely extended to the other boys as well.
37.Magnet stole Mr.Sir's sunflower seeds.
38.Because Stanley might have thought that taking the blame would increase his standing in the view of the other boys.
39.Because He didn't think the Warden would like people digging holes near her cabin.
40.She gently scraped her poisonous nails across Stanley's face.After viciously scratching Mr.Sir，she sent Stanley back to the site.
Chapters 21-25
41.His hole was almost done while Zero's hole was smaller than all the others.
42.Because Zero helped him out when he was in trouble and offered to dig part of his hole every day.
43.Zero was very good at math.
44.He concluded that the gold tube was“Kissin'Kate Barlow's”lipstick tube.
45.In Katherine's time，Green Lake was a beautiful lake with peach trees blooming on its shores.There was a schoolhouse where Katherine instructed children and adults who eagerly attended her classes.It contrasted sharply with the harsh，desolated place of cruelty that it had become for Stanley and other campers.
46.Sam had a“secret onion field”on the other side of the lake，where“the water runs uphill.”
47.Mr.Sir didn't give Stanley any water when he brought the water truck out to where the boys were digging.
48.Because he was black.
49.The repetition was Katherine's repeated requests to have something at the schoolhouse fixed，and Sam's response，“I can fix that.”Katherine kept repeating her requests to fix broken things in order to keep Sam around，and Sam gladly agreed to continue these jobs.Finally，Katherine said that it was her heart that was breaking.Sam gave his typical response，“I can fix that.”The repetition，therefore，emphasizes the growing romantic relationship between Sam and Katherine.
50.Because she thought it was wrong for a black man to kiss a white woman.The people of Green Lake had stated it was against the law.
Chapters 26-30
51.Because he was angry that Katherine had refused his affections and he was jealous that she loved Sam.
52.Sam got shot in the water after Trout Walker rammed his boat.
53.Zero's real name was Hector Zeroni.It was Madame Zeroni who cursed Stanley's great-great grandfather.Perhaps Zero was one of Madame Zeroni's descendants.
54.He thought he saw a distant mountain peak that looked like a giant fist with an upraised thumb.
55.The peach trees all died.There were only two small oak trees left by a small abandoned cabin.The lake was drying up；“it was little more than a small pond full of dirty water.”The town was a ghost town.
56.Because she wouldn't tell him where she had hidden her treasure.
57.Because Zero was digging part of Stanley's hole each day.
58.Zero helped get the other boys off Stanley.Mr.Pendanski shot his gun to get them to stop，and the Warden came.She found out about Stanley teaching Zero to read and told him to stop.She and Mr.Pendanski stated that it wouldn't do much good because Zero was stupid.
59.Because Mr.Pendanski insulted him and told him he was good for nothing but digging holes.
Chapters 31-35
60.Because they believed that the harsh desert conditions would force Zero to return.
61.Because the Warden still wanted seven holes.
62.By destroying all of Zero's records.She felt this would not be difficult because Zero had no family to question officials.
63.A boy named Brian arrived to take Zero's place.His nickname was Twitch.He was sent to Camp Green Lake for stealing a car.
64.Because Stanley stole the water truck to try to find Zero in the desert.
65.Stanley drove the water truck straight into a hole.It got stuck in the hole.
66.Because he cared about Zero and was worried about his safety.
67.The desert contained many dangers for Stanley:an absence of water for many miles，no shelter from the sun or heat，and an abundance of yellow-spotted lizards and rattlesnakes.
68.Because Stanley walked toward the mountain that looked like a fist because the upward pointing thumb seemed to be an optimistic sign，and he recalled the story of his great-grandfather who may have found refuge in precisely this spot.
69.Stanley found Zero under Sam's broken boat，which sank during the confrontation between Sam，Katherin and Trout.
70.Zero survived under the broken boat by eating what once were Katherine's canned spiced peaches that were in the boat when it sank.
Chapters 36-40
71.Stanley and Zero resolved to try to reach“God's thumb.”
72.They might be able to use the broken glass as a knife.
73.The“thumbs-up”is typically recognized as a positive expression meaning“OK”，or an expression of encouragement.
74.Stanley distracted Zero from his pain and weakness by helping him spell new words.
75.Because Zero collapsed from lack of water and eating the“Sploosh.”
76.Elya Yelnats had failed to carry Mademe Zeroni up the mountain to drink from the stream and sing the pig lullaby to her.Four generations later，Stanley carried Hector Zeroni up a mountain，gave him water，and sang the pig lullaby to him.
77.Zero confessed that he stole Clyde Livingston's shoes.
78.Because he was happy with himself.He had lost weight，made a good friend，and maybe it was his destiny to be at Camp Green Lake.
79.Sam's onion tonic saved Becca.This story related to the boys because the onions that grew in the meadow atop the mountain that had probably saved their lives could have been the descendants of onions sets that Sam planted.
80.Big Thumb was a mountain in the middle of the desert.A hundred years ago，a lake surrounded it.There was water on the inside of the mountain.Sam had his onion field on the top of it.
Chapters 41-45
81.Zero and his mother were homeless for a while.Zero became a ward of the state when his mother left.He stole Clyde Livingston's shoes and then threw them over the freeway overpass.It was the shoes that hit Stanley.
82.They would go and find the buried treasure and use the money to be fugitives for the rest of their lives.
83.Stanley and Zero planned to return to Camp Green Lake and saw what they could dig up in the hole where Stanley found the gold tube.They would dig through the night as long as it seemed safe，then whether or not they found anything，they would head up the dirt road and away from the camp.
84.Because Stanley and Zero had onions for nourishment and canteens of water.
85.Stanley got confused about their directions on the dry lake，but Zero could figure out which direction to travel in relation to the wreck of the Mary Lou.Zero was able to guide them back to Camp Green Lake.
86.Because he didn't think Kate Barlow would have buried the loot any deeper.
87.Because he feared that it caused a cave-in.
88.The Warden and Mr.Pendanski appeared with flashlights，and Mr.Sir carried a gun.The boys were caught in the hole.
89.They had found where the treasure was and dug up the treasure for her.
90.As a reflection of Stanley's character，this statement can be seen a positive one.Rather than focusing on what seemed like his impending death，Stanley was focusing on the fact that he was still alive if—only for a few seconds longer.
Chapters 46-50
91.Mr.Sir told Stanley that he was innocent.
92.By recalling a loving，happy time with his mother when they slipped down a snowy hill and laughed together when they reached the bottom.
93.They moved to stay in the shade.
94.Because the lizards did not bite the boys.
95.Because the boys had eaten too many onions on the top of the mountain and the lizards didn't like onion blood.
96.When the Warden was a child，she watched her parents dig holes every weekend and holiday，looking for the buried treasure.When she was older，she had to dig holes，too.“Even on Christmas.”This told us that the Warden spent her life obsessed with finding Kate Barlow's treasure.
97.The two people who arrived in the morning were Stanley's attorney，Ms.Morengo，and the Texas Attorney General.
98.Zero had started to learn to read，he could recognize Stanley's name on the suitcase.Therefore，when the Warden tried to accuse Stanley of stealing her suitcase，Zero was able to tell the attorney his friend's name was written on it.
99.The Warden was unable to produce any records for Zero，since she had them destroyed after Zero ran away from the camp.As a result，Stanley's lawyer felt justified in taking Zero away from the camp.
100.Stanley's father invented his foot fungus cure the day after Stanley carried Zero up the mountain.This suggested that Stanley's action somehow broke the curse on the Yelnats family.
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