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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Amanda's mom act when she first meets Maniac?
(a) She is overly thrilled at meeting the famous Maniac.
(b) She continues cleaning and ignores them.
(c) She embarrasses Amanda with stories Amanda told her.
(d) She yells at them about the book being torn.

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

3. Why doesn't Maniac go to Grayson's room at the YMCA?
(a) He is afraid of the YMCA.
(b) He doesn't want anyone to see and recognize him.
(c) He is afraid of Grayson.
(d) He doesn't want to bring trouble to the old man.

4. Why doesn't McNab want to pitch to Maniac?
(a) Maniac's shoes are flapping.
(b) Maniac is not on the Green Sox.
(c) He knows Maniac can hit the ball.
(d) He is a runt who is not on the league.

5. What is the confetti made out of that the townspeople throw for Maniac's celebration of untying the knot?
(a) Amanda's Encyclopedia.
(b) Lyle, Lye Crocodile.
(c) Newspaper.
(d) The Children's Crusade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the two young boys in the second cabin continuously call Maniac?

2. How long does it take Maniac to travel two hundred miles to Two Mills?

3. Who does Grayson say took Maniac's buffalo rag clothes away?

4. What happens to Amanda for the first and only time in Chapter 3?

5. Why does Mrs. Beale get mad at Maniac the day she is making meatloaf?

(see the answer key)

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