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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the big question at the Pickwell dinner table on the night they eat spaghetti in Chapter 6?
(a) Who was the kid on the football field?
(b) Who's the extra kid at the dinner table?
(c) Who was the kid who helped Arnold Jones.
(d) Why are we eating spaghetti again?

2. What does Grayson teach Maniac after their many weeks together?
(a) How to pitch.
(b) How to feed the buffalo.
(c) How to mend fences.
(d) How to line a baseball diamond.

3. What do the two young boys in the second cabin continuously call Maniac?
(a) Meatball.
(b) Jerk.
(c) Sausage.
(d) Nerd.

4. Why does Mars Bar hate Maniac at the end of Chapter 38?
(a) Maniac humiliates him.
(b) Maniac refuses to participate.
(c) Maniac wins.
(d) Nobody is there to see Mars Bar win.

5. Which of the following is not a reason why the bigger kids from all over come to the vacant lot to see Maniac?
(a) To see how good he really was.
(b) To see if everything they heard was true.
(c) To tell him that he was not welcome in their town.
(d) To test him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most perilous feat that the McNab boys ask Maniac to perform?

2. What is Maniac running on that amazes the Pickwell children?

3. Why doesn't Maniac leave the McNab boys when they drive him crazy?

4. Why does Mr. Beale make a U-turn when taking Maniac home?

5. What is Maniac concerned about in regard to the book he has gotten from Amanda?

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