Holes Novel

Why did the kids at school often tease Stanley

• his dad was the janitor

• he had bright red hair

• his feet smelled

• he was overweight

After Elya Yelnats reached America

• He looked for Madame Zeroni's son

• sent money to Myra's father

• grew onions

• changed his name to Stanley

X-Ray told Stanley that

• X-Ray is pig Latin for Rex

• his name was Ray

• He could find a needle in a haystack

• It was short for extra radioactive

Where did Stanley realize that he had seen the gold tube before

• on an ink pen

• in a book about Kate Barlow

• in an old picture

• in his mother's bathroom

What happened when Sam kissed Katherine

• Linda Miller became jealous

• Mrs. Tennyson gave them money to leave town

• Hattie saw them and said God would punish them.

• Doc Hawthorne ran Sam out of town

Zero left Camp Greenlake when

• He got a letter from his mother

• he hit Mr. Pendanski in the face with a shovel

• The warden accused him of stealing sunflower seeds

• he was released

What helped Zero as he and Stanley went to the Thumb

• Stanley spelled words for Zero

• Zero remembered his toy giraffe

• Zero told the story of his Great Great Grandmother

• They talked about Stanley Livingston

Stanley went part way back down the mountain

• to cover his tracks

• to get more sploosh

• to get the shovel

• to find the gold tube

What happened as Stanley stood in the hole and Zero held the suitcase?

• A yellow spotted lizard jumped out of the hole and attacked a tarantula

• A yellow spotted lizard licked Zero's wounds

• Stanley heard a rattling sound come from the suitcase.

• an onion fell out of the suitcase

What did Sam tell the men that was going out to hunt rattlesnakes

• he would pay them for any onions they found.

• to sing to the snakes

• look out for yellow spotted lizards

• to drink onion juice to protect themselves