Holes Study Guide

At the beginning of the novel, what is Stanley's father trying to invent?

• a time machine

• an odorless onion

• a way to recycle old sneakers

• a spray to deodorize stink feet

Stanley is sentenced to Camp Green Lake for

• stealing a pig

• stealing onions

• stealing Clyde Livingston's sneakers.

• getting into a fight with Derrick Dunne

Stanley's family was cursed by

• Myra Menke's father

• one-legged gypsy

• Kissin' Kate Barlow

• Clyde Livingston's great-great-grandmother

Green Lake is under a curse because

• the townspeople killed sam.

• Zero's ancestor is the gypsy.

• Elya forgot his promise to the gypsy.

• Stanley brings his family's bad luck with him.

The Warden's nail polish contains

• onion juice

• rattlesnake venom

• yellow-spotted lizards

• nothing unordinary; it's just Stanley's imagination

Before she was known as Kissin' Kate, Katherine Barlow was

• an onion farmer.

• an outlaw.

• a schoolteacher.

• the Warden.

The mysterious object Stanley digs up is

• a half a lipstick tube.

• a jar of Sploosh.

• a nail polish cap.

• a sneaker.

Which of these are Sam's onions not good for?

• curing food poisoning

• deodorizing feet

• keeping the yellow-spotted lizards away

• building one's strength after days in the desert

God's thumb is

• a mountain.

• next to God's index finger.

• climbed by Elya Yelnats carrying a pig

• a figment of Stanley's imagination.

How was Ms. Morengo able to take Zero too?

• She's his mother

• She was Zero's attorney too

• Nobody could find Zero's records

• She claimed Zero was innocent