CHAPTERS 1-10
STUDENT WORKSHEET PACKET ANSWER KEY

 

VOCABULARY

 

1. land that is desolate, barren
2. stay in place; linger
3. smothering, suffocating
4. something that is in the way (obstacle course)
5. great size (desert)
6. constant purpose
7. forgot, failed to tend to, disregarded
8. lacking vegetation
9. deserted, forlorn, empty
10. act of going against a law, rule
11. possibility
12. loss of pride or dignity
13. sold to highest bidder
14. vile, contemptible
15. doesn't go deep
16. future generations; off spring

17. endless period of time

18. dug out
19. living off other animals
20. great concentration

 

DISCUSSION QUESTiONS

 

1. He was wrongly accused of stealing Clyde"Sweet Feet" Livingston's sneakers
2. It was spelled the same way forwards and backwards
3. Digging a 5 foot by 5 foot hole seven days a week
4. Great-great pig stealing grandfather
5. He was robbed by "Kissin" Kate Barlow
6. The Warden
7. Major league baseball player who was Stanley's hero
8. They dropped on him as he went through an underpass
9. 5 feet wide by 5 feet long by 5 feet deep
10. Give it to one of the counselors
11. Would get the rest of the day off from having to dig a hole
12. Caveman
13. He failed to carry Madam Zeroni up the mountain so she could drink from the stream
14. A gold tube with the initials KB on it

 

CHAPTERS 1-10

STUDENT QUIZ ANSWER KEY

 

VOCABULARY

 

1. wasteland
2. hovered
3. stifling
4. obstacles
5. vast
6. perserverance
7. neglected
8. barren
9. desolate
10. violation
11. prospect
12. humiliating
13. auction
14. despicable
15. shallow
16. descendents, eternity
17. excavated
18. predatory
19. intensity

 

 

WRITTEN EXPRESSION

 

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