Holes

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. What is ironic about the name Camp Green Lake?

A) The lake is blue.

B) It isn’t like a vacation.

C) It is more like a dry wasteland.

D) The lake is more like a pond.

2. What does Mr. Pendanski’s warning about the Warden foreshadow in the novel?

A) The shoes that fall from the sky on Stanley

B) The location of Kate Barlow’s loot

C) The oppressive circumstances brought by the curse

D) The trouble that will come at Camp Green Lake

3. What might the reader conclude the author believes about misdeeds?

A) If you act badly, you must quickly correct your errors.

B) Your actions can have consequences for generations.

C) What your forefathers did makes little difference.

D) If you live a good life, good things will happen to you.

4. How are the characters of X-Ray and the Warden similar?

A) Both are friends with Mr. Sir.

B) Both abuse their power.

C)  Both ultimately show their bravery.

D) Both are cursed by past events.

5. Which of the following scenarios best represents the novel’s theme of Fate Is Powerful?

A) Stanley is bullied, as his ancestors were.

B) Stanley is named for his great-great-grandfather.

C) Stanley acquires the shoes Zero stole.

D) Stanley gives Kate Barlow’s lipstick tube to X-Ray.

6. How does Stanley feel after digging his first hole?

A) Curious

B) Proud

C) Worthless

D) Lucky

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