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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. It is such a hot August day that the kids decide to play in what?
(a) The fire hydrant water.
(b) The creek.
(c) The pool.
(d) The pond.

2. What is Grayson curious about that he asks Maniac while Maniac eats at the diner?
(a) How Maniac came to live with the buffalo.
(b) How Maniac untied the Cobble's Knot.
(c) How black people live.
(d) How Maniac got his name.

3. Why does Maniac say Amen after Grayson finishes reading his first book?
(a) Maniac says Amen is for when someone does something you really like.
(b) Maniac had prayed Grayson would succeed.
(c) Maniac prays for Grayson to do better next time.
(d) Maniac is glad it is over.

4. What does Mrs. Beale finally ask Maniac one day while he is licking icing?
(a) "Are you Maniac?"
(b) "Where did you come from?"
(c) "Why don't you have a home?"
(d) "Where are your parents?"

5. What position did Grayson play?
(a) Right Field.
(b) Catcher.
(c) First Base.
(d) Pitcher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens with the townspeople as Maniac walks up the middle of the street after the incident with the old man?

2. What do Maniac and Grayson do on Thanksgiving Day in the cold?

3. What is being called over and over again to Maniac when the kids are playing on that hot August day in chapter 17?

4. What does McNab decide to do to Maniac in retaliation for the baseball incident?

5. What does Maniac eat at the diner?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Maniac blind?

2. Right at the start of this novel, the reader knows that the main character is going to have a different life than the normal pre-teen. How so?

3. 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?

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

5. How does Maniac help others and what are his motives in doing so?

6. Why do Maniac and Grayson decorate a tree in the woods?

7. What is the underlying reason that Maniac wants to leave town after the incident at the fire hydrant party?

8. How does the story of Grayson't past affect Maniac?

9. How does Grayson handle the unconscious Maniac when he discovers him in the buffalo pen?

10. Why is the big black man so upset that Maniac is playing in the fire hydrant water?

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