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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maniac do to make McNab pitch the ball to him?
(a) He insults McNab.
(b) He takes a hat off another player.
(c) He challenges McNab.
(d) He stands at the bag and waits.

2. What do Maniac and Grayson do on Thanksgiving Day in the cold?
(a) They go watch the high school football game.
(b) They play baseball.
(c) They go to the zoo.
(d) They go ice-skating.

3. What is being called over and over again to Maniac when the kids are playing on that hot August day in chapter 17?
(a) Whitey.
(b) Trash.
(c) Fishbelly.
(d) Loser.

4. How long does it take Maniac to travel two hundred miles to Two Mills?
(a) One day.
(b) One year.
(c) One month.
(d) One week.

5. What does Maniac eat at the diner?
(a) A complete meatloaf dinner.
(b) Burger and fries.
(c) Ham and eggs.
(d) Cake.

Short Answer Questions

1. By Christmas, where has Grayson moved?

2. Why do the people of Two Mills give Jeffrey his nickname?

3. What does John McNab do to the Green Sox team at the Little League game?

4. What does Mrs. Beale finally ask Maniac one day while he is licking icing?

5. Why does Maniac say Amen after Grayson finishes reading his first book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the reader learn about Maniac's personality through the scene of Mars Bar and Maniac and the candy bar?

2. What is the underlying reason that Maniac wants to leave town after the incident at the fire hydrant party?

3. What is Grayson so curious about that he obviously has no understanding of during his meal with Maniac at the diner?

4. Right at the start of this novel, the reader knows that the main character is going to have a different life than the normal pre-teen. How so?

5. How is the scene in the kitchen between Mrs. Beale and Maniac both ironic and symbolic?

6. Maniac's life tale may be bigger than he actually is. What begins the exaggeration in Chapter 2?

7. How does Amanda treat Maniac differently than everyone else in Chapter 11 and previous chapters?

8. How does Grayson handle the unconscious Maniac when he discovers him in the buffalo pen?

9. Why do Maniac and Grayson decorate a tree in the woods?

10. How might Amanda Beale's character be a good match for Maniac?

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