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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "punk" lose when Max runs into him trying to get away from Tony?

2. What does Max notice about the toys laying around at the tenements?

3. Why did Max feel the need to kick people in daycare?

4. Why does Kevin tell Max that they need to head East in Chapter 9?

5. Where does Kevin make Max put his hand, with spit in it, for their promise?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Max's room.

2. Who has supposedly used Kevin's Boy Scout compass?

3. What is going to be Max's reward for being Kevin's "faithful steed" on their journey to the medical research building?

4. Describe Loretta, the first time that Max and Kevin see her.

5. Why is Max confused by Kevin calling him "earthling"?

6. What has been done to prepare Kevin for the bionics transplant?

7. How does Max describe the cloud he sees in his head?

8. Where does the name "Freak the Mighty" come from?

9. Why does Max think Grim never says his father's name?

10. Why does Tony D. approach Max and Kevin during the Fourth of July celebration?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

It is not until Max meets, and befriends, Kevin that he comes to excel in school. Why did it take his friendship with Kevin to pull Max out of his educational "box"? What does Kevin do that helps Max intellectually?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think Max feared his father so much? Name, and discuss, two reasons why Max was afraid of his father. What is the fear? What is the fear based upon? Was the fear realistic? Why? Why not?

Essay Topic 3

Max seems to be a very good judge of character. Choose one of the subordinate characters (Loretta, Iggy, Ken Kane) and describe how Max's initial feelings about the character came to be true. Alternatively, Max ended up being wrong about two of the characters, why were his initial feelings about the character false?

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