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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Cobras come to do in the McNab house?
(a) Drink beer and play football.
(b) Drink soda and play football.
(c) Drink beer and play cards.
(d) Drink soda and play video games.

2. What story does Maniac change in telling to the Pickwells?
(a) The one about the fire hydrant party.
(b) The one about Maniac running backwards and beating Mars Bar.
(c) The one about Russell and the trolley.
(d) The one about "Hands" Down and the punt.

3. What do Russell and Piper fear has happened to Maniac while in the East End?
(a) He has been tortured.
(b) He has been killed.
(c) He has been kidnapped.
(d) He has decided to stay there.

4. What method does Maniac use to try to keep Russell and Piper in school after he came back to the McNabs'?
(a) He made them lunches to take with them.
(b) He organized marble tournaments during recess.
(c) He threatened them with punishments.
(d) He bribed them with money.

5. What does Maniac do as a feat with rat-infested dump?
(a) Finds a hubcap.
(b) Walks across it barefoot.
(c) Kills a rat.
(d) Crawls across it.

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

7. What can Maniac hear even further away than before, now that he is not living in any particular home in chapter 43?
(a) Mrs. Pickwell's whistle.
(b) Amanda's bicycle bell.
(c) Kids playing in the park.
(d) The train whistle.

8. Why does Maniac bring Mars Bar to Piper's birthday party?
(a) Because he hates Mars Bar.
(b) Because he knows Mars Bar will have fun.
(c) Because he wants the blacks and whites to be together.
(d) Because he wants to scare Mars Bar.

9. Who comes running up to Maniac after the race with Mars Bar is over?
(a) Russell and Piper.
(b) "Hands" Down.
(c) Hester and Lester.
(d) Amanda.

10. Where does Maniac sleep now that it is almost June?
(a) Wherever he ends up at the end of the day.
(b) Mostly in the park.
(c) In the zoo.
(d) Usually at the lake.

11. What are the raisins in the McNab house?
(a) Cockroaches.
(b) Rat feces.
(c) Cat feces.
(d) Raisins.

12. What does Maniac experience in early July in the early mornings?
(a) He believes someone is following him.
(b) He thinks he hears a baby crying.
(c) He believes someone is chasing him.
(d) He thinks hears an animal crying.

13. What best describes the McNab house?
(a) Well decorated.
(b) Slightly messy.
(c) Disgustingly dirty.
(d) Sloppy but clean.

14. How does Mars Bar know that Maniac was not afraid at the trolley incident?
(a) Maniac was not afraid of the third rail.
(b) Anyone who would get up in his face couldn't be afraid.
(c) Maniac was not afraid of the rats at the dump.
(d) Maniac was not afraid of Finsterwald.

15. What does Maniac say when Amanda tells him that they are going home?
(a) "I don't want to go there."
(b) "No."
(c) "Great."
(d) "I can't."

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift does Maniac bring Piper?

2. What do the McNabs call the thing that they are building in the dining room of the McNab house?

3. What does George McNab say as he leaves the room the day of the party?

4. What part of the day does Maniac like best of all now that it is almost June?

5. What are the McNabs and Cobras building in the dining room of the McNab house?

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