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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maniac paint on the outside of the band shell?
(a) Amen.
(b) The number 101.
(c) Beware of buffalos.
(d) Fishbelly.

2. Who shows up for Grayson's funeral?
(a) Maniac, pallbearers, two gravediggers, and the funeral man.
(b) Maniac, the pallbearers, and the funeral man.
(c) Maniac and the minister.
(d) Maniac and the funeral man.

3. What does Maniac wonder about Black people?
(a) Why they live on the East End.
(b) Why they don't come to the West End.
(c) Why they call themselves black.
(d) Why they celebrate the Fourth of July with the white people.

4. What does Maniac do for Grayson after he reads his first book?
(a) Maniac takes him out to dinner.
(b) Maniac gives him another book.
(c) Maniac sends him home.
(d) Maniac cooks for him.

5. What does the neighborhood woman use to stop Mars Bar Thompson?
(a) A call to the police.
(b) A broom and a stare.
(c) A stare.
(d) A baseball bat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maniac tell the McNab boys about Mexico so that they will not want to go there?

2. What are the raisins in the McNab house?

3. Why do the other children want to touch Maniac after he speaks with whoever answered Finsterwald's door?

4. How does Maniac make the deal even better for the McNab boys to go to school?

5. Why does Maniac decide to leave town?

(see the answer key)

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