"HOLES" (Chapters 26-35) Study Guide

One of the themes of HOLES includes the topic of ___, after the schoolteacher, otherwise known as kissin' Kate Barlow, lost the love of her life, Onion Man Sam, to racial injustice.

• equality

• labor rights

• acceptance

• All of the above.

Stanley grew to appreciate Zero's ___, secretly hoping that the Warden would recognize it, too.

• strength

• stupidity

• intelligence

• vulnerability

The Warden's deep scratches along Mr. Sir's cheek not only swelled to the size of a grapefruit but also appeared as a(n) ___ of a scar.

• inkling

• tattoo

• drawing

• enveloping

Zero's admittance of his name being Hector Zeroni creates ___ within the plot.

• foreshadowing

• flashbacks

• suspense

• humor

Trout Walker came back to haunt (and try to threaten) Kate Barlow with death, after she refused to give him and his wife (her former student named Linda ___-now-Walker), the location of her loot.

• Pendanski

• Elya

• Mary Lou

• Miller

With it's sharp black teeth, the yellow-spotted lizard bit into Kate Barlow's leg, but despite that, she died ___.

• a painful death

• laughing

• crying

• gratefully

Stanley began second-guessing himself, after a loud clap of thunder and lightning lit up the mountain peak above the barren land; initially, he thought he had seen "a giant ___, with the ___ sticking straight out".

• ghost, heart

• Madame Zeroni, pig

• hole, loot

• fist, thumb

Stanley couldn't shake the connection he made between his great-grandfather's comment of survival and the outline of the mountains in the storm... Could it possibly be ___'s ___?

• God's thumb

• Madame Zeroni's pig

• Kate Barlow's loot

• Sam's sweet onion patch

___ continued to antagonize Stanley about Zero digging his holes for him—each at different times—regardless of Stanley's exchanged agreement of helping to teach Zero how to read.

• X-Ray

• Squid

• ZigZag

• All of the above.

ZigZag's constant teasing—or maybe it was the fact that he couldn't really celebrate his birthday—led to a ___ among the boys, causing Mr. Pendanski to fire his pistol.

• riot

• fall-out

• whipping

• shouting match