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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Cobble use the knot for?
(a) As a conversation piece.
(b) As a site seeing object.
(c) To draw in business.
(d) To tie leftover string pieces.

2. What does Maniac eat at the diner?
(a) Cake.
(b) A complete meatloaf dinner.
(c) Burger and fries.
(d) Ham and eggs.

3. What does "Hands" Down do in regard to Maniac that makes the older kids upset?
(a) He tells the older kids that Maniac does not like them.
(b) He laughs at the older kids when Maniac beats them.
(c) He laughs that Maniac is his friend and not theirs.
(d) He brags to the older kids about Maniac.

4. What is the first book Grayson reads cover to cover?
(a) "The Story of Babar".
(b) "The First Pitch".
(c) "The Little Engine That Could".
(d) "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel".

5. What changes in the Beale household now that Maniac is there?
(a) The yellow bucket is used more.
(b) The children start to tie their own shoes.
(c) The children are better behaved.
(d) Amanda takes baths again with the children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John McNab do to the Green Sox team at the Little League game?

2. What causes the red bumps to surface on Maniac's body?

3. What does Maniac wonder about Black people?

4. What do Maniac and Grayson do right after Thanksgiving dinner?

5. What is the big question at the Pickwell dinner table on the night they eat spaghetti in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the reader learn about Maniac's personality through the scene of Mars Bar and Maniac and the candy bar?

2. The fact that Maniac takes a nap during the untying of the famous knot says a lot about the way he perceives the event. What does it say?

3. What stops McNab and the Cobras from chasing Maniac after the home run hit? What does this say about the boys?

4. Why won't Maniac go to school?

5. Chapter 14 ends with Mrs. Beale asking Maniac whether he is Maniac or not. He responds saying that he is Jeffrey. She states that in her house he will always be Jeffrey. What does this mean for the two of them?

6. How does the Beale household change now that Maniac lives there?

7. How does Maniac get his nickname?

8. Maniac's life tale may be bigger than he actually is. What begins the exaggeration in Chapter 2?

9. Why does Maniac walk right out of town after he realizes that the encyclopedia has been used for confetti?

10. Why does Maniac paint 101 on the front door of the equipment room?

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