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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What changes in the Beale household now that Maniac is there?
(a) The yellow bucket is used more.
(b) The children start to tie their own shoes.
(c) The children are better behaved.
(d) Amanda takes baths again with the children.

2. What does Mr. Cobble use the knot for?
(a) As a conversation piece.
(b) To draw in business.
(c) To tie leftover string pieces.
(d) As a site seeing object.

3. What does Maniac do for fifteen minutes before completing the knot?
(a) He drinks an orange soda.
(b) He takes a nap.
(c) He reads a book.
(d) He prays.

4. What strategy does Grayson use to help him learn to read?
(a) He equates reading to baseball.
(b) He memorizes a few consonants at a time.
(c) He only works with the vowels at first.
(d) He has Maniac use baseball terms.

5. What does the boy give to Maniac while he is untying the knot?
(a) A Ring Ding.
(b) A Butterscotch Krimpet.
(c) A Peanut Butter Kandy Kake.
(d) A Devil Dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the red bumps to surface on Maniac's body?

2. What is the first book Grayson reads cover to cover?

3. What does Maniac do to make McNab pitch the ball to him?

4. What do Grayson and Maniac buy at Woolworths?

5. What does Maniac wonder about Black people?

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