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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 Max's father tell him that he cannot watch without crying?

2. According to Max, what food does Kevin love?

3. What does Loretta call Max right before his father begins choking her?

4. What does Max claim is one of Gram's specialties; it just makes everything better?

5. What is sitting empty on top of the "old bat's" television- in the apartment that Max's father takes him to hide out?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Grim justify the telling of "tales"?

2. Why does Kevin think that his tracheotomy is cool?

3. What does Max do when Mrs.Donalli asks him a question in class?

4. How does Mr. Meehan explain Max's inability to do well in school?

5. What does Grim say that his father gave him for Christmas?

6. Describe the apartment that Max and his father hide out in.

7. What does Max do, on the hospital lawn, given that he is not able to go in and visit Kevin?

8. What do both Kevin and Max get each other for Christmas?

9. Why does Loretta come to the abandoned basement to rescue Max?

10. What causes Max to pull out the empty book one year after Kevin's death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

True friendship is a key theme to the book. Find three examples where true friendship are exampled and explain why the example speaks to true friendship.

Essay Topic 2

Freak the Mighty is a combination of both Max and Kevin. How does this combination make a whole person? (In what ways is Kevin disabled? Max? How does the combination of both make a "whole"?)

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Max and Kevin. In what ways are they similar? In what ways are they different? In what ways do their differences complement each other?

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