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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 kind of story does Amanda give to Maniac?

2. What happens to Maniac Magee's parents?

3. Why does Amanda stay up late the night of her argument with Maniac?

4. What position did Grayson play?

5. It is such a hot August day that the kids decide to play in what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Grayson and Maniac teach each other and how does it affect them?

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

3. How is Maniac blind?

4. How do the Beale's show that they are not prejudiced people?

5. Why does Maniac say Amen when Grayson finishes reading his first book and what effect does it have on Grayson?

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

7. Why won't Maniac go to school?

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

9. How does Maniac help others and what are his motives in doing so?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why doesn't Maniac go to school? How does this decision affect Maniac, as well as the other major characters in the story?

Essay Topic 2

John McNab is a complex, dynamic character. How so? How does his characterization affect the themes of race in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

How does the relationship between Maniac and Mars Bar grow? What do each of the boys give to the other that each is lacking? How does this relationship epitomize the good in human nature?

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