ANSWERS:
1. Stanley starts out with low self esteem. He is unsure about himself. During the story, this changes and he starts to feel better about himself.
2. If anyone tried to escape they would never stay alive because Camp Green Lake has the only water for a hundred miles.
3. To go to America (like her son).
4. Carry Madame Zeroni up the mountain. She said she would put a curse on his family.
5. It meant he was accepted as part of the group.
6. rattlesnake venom
7. part of a tube of lipstick. Remembering the inscription on the bottom of the tube ("KB"), he wonders if that lipstick might just have belonged to Kissin' Kate Barlow.
8. The boys think that Mary Lou was the girlfriend of whoever owned the boat. They think she was pretty and "looked great in a bathing suit". Instead Mary Lou is just Sam's donkey.