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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Grayson not know how to read?
(a) His parents were drunks.
(b) He never went to school.
(c) He heard his teacher say he was never going to learn to read.
(d) He has a learning disability.

2. What happens to Amanda for the first and only time in Chapter 3?
(a) She is late to school.
(b) She lends one of her books.
(c) She trips and falls.
(d) She falls in love.

3. What happened to Grayson at the game against the Toledo Mud Hens?
(a) Grayson hit Willie Mays.
(b) Grayson got hurt.
(c) Grayson's pitching was terrible.
(d) Grayson threw a no hitter.

4. Why does Grayson take Maniac to the equipment room?
(a) Maniac has passed out.
(b) To give Maniac a new baseball bat.
(c) So Grayson can become famous for saving Maniac.
(d) To hide Maniac from the black kids.

5. What is Maniac concerned about in regard to the book he has gotten from Amanda?
(a) If he should give it back to Amanda at all.
(b) If he should mend the ripped page.
(c) If he should give it to Mars Bar.
(d) If he should buy another one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Maniac and Grayson trim a tree in the woods?

2. What changes in the Beale household now that Maniac is there?

3. What doesn't Maniac do in his new home at the Beales?

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

5. What does Maniac do for Grayson after he reads his first book?

(see the answer key)

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