Holes Comprehension Questions- Answers

Chapters 1-4
1. Being bitten by a yellow spotted lizard
2. He was arrested and given the choice between camp green lake and prison
3. His no good pig stealing great great grandfather
4. They have the only water for 100 miles
Chapters 5-6
1. Don’t make the warden angry
2. He was accused of stealing Clyde Livingston’s shoes
3. The shoes “fell from the sky”, and he was bringing them home for his dad’s
experiment
Chapter 7
1. To build character
2. He needs a fat pig to give Myra’s father
3. She gives him a piglet, and tells him that if he carries it up the mountain and
sings to it as it drinks from the stream. This will make it grow big and strong.
4. He needs to carry Madame Zeroni up the mountain and sing to her as she
drinks. No, he doesn’t remember.
Chapters 8-10
1. He accidentally gets in a fight and earns the respect of the other boys.
2. A fish fossil
3. No, the warden isn’t interested in fossils.
Chapters 11-13
1. He’s been at Camp Green Lake the longest, and has never found anything
2. He says he wants to dig holes. Probably not what he actually wants.
3. He finds a gold tube with the letters KB on it. He gives it to X-Ray.
Chapters 14-16
1. She’s female.
2. Yes.
3. If there is actually treasure, that is where the treasure will be, and he doesn’t
want to forget it.
Chapters 17-19
1. They’ve been digging for too long and haven’t found anything yet.
2. How to read and write
3. A bag of sunflower seeds, Stanley gets blamed
Chapters 20-23
1. She scratches Mr. Sir with her poisonous nail polish
2. Its already been dug by Zero
3. It’s a lipstick tube, and he thinks it belongs to KB
4. A schoolteacher in the town of Green Lake
Chapters 24-26
1. He refuses to fill his canteen
2. Sam, and he gives them onions
 3. He is black and she is white, and interracial relationships were not allowed in
the town at this time in history
4. She becomes the outlaw Kissin’ Kate Barlow.
Chapters 27-28
1. Zeroni
2. Kissin’ Kate Barlow’s loot
3. She was bit by a yellow spotted lizard
Chapters 29-30
1. He notices the mountain that looks like a thumb
2. They are angry at Stanley because he is not digging his hole by himself
3. He runs away
Chapters 31-34
1. They erase any record of him ever being at Camp Green Lake
2. He tries to steal the water truck and drive it to him. It doesn’t work, he crashes
it into a hole.
3. Sam’s boat
Chapters 35-37
1. He has been eating “sploosh” (Kate’s spiced peaches)
2. They decide to climb the mountain
3. There are bugs
Chapters 38-41
1. Onions
2. He was the one who stole Clyde Livingston’s shoes
3. They prevent yellow spotted lizards from biting you
Chapters 42-43
1. He wants to dig where he found the lipstick and try to find the loot
2. He was homeless, and after a certain point his mother disappeared too
Chapters 44-46
1. They find a briefcase
2. They are talking about people who came that day, and how they will tell her
that Stanley died when he tried to run away
Chapters 47-48
1. Stanley’s lawyer and the Attorney General, they want to take Stanley home
2. Stanley Yelnats the first
3. Since his records have been erased, the lawyer takes him back with Stanley
Chapters 49-50
1. They had eaten a lot of onions, and lizards don’t like onion blood
2. “Sploosh”- a foot deodorizing spray