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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Grayson curious about that he asks Maniac while Maniac eats at the diner?
2. Why does Maniac decide to leave town?
3. What does Mars Bar Thompson take from Maniac?
4. What does Maniac want from Amanda at the end of Chapter 13 that she won't give him?
5. It is such a hot August day that the kids decide to play in what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is the big black man so upset that Maniac is playing in the fire hydrant water?
2. What does the reader learn about Maniac's personality through the scene of Mars Bar and Maniac and the candy bar?
3. Why does Maniac say Amen when Grayson finishes reading his first book and what effect does it have on Grayson?
4. Maniac's life tale may be bigger than he actually is. What begins the exaggeration in Chapter 2?
5. How does Maniac get his nickname?
6. How is it that Maniac could have a meal at the Pickwell house and nobody questions his presence?
7. Why does Maniac paint 101 on the front door of the equipment room?
8. Why won't Maniac go to school?
9. What is the underlying reason that Maniac wants to leave town after the incident at the fire hydrant party?
10. How does Grayson handle the unconscious Maniac when he discovers him in the buffalo pen?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the pillbox the most frightening part of the whole novel? What does the pillbox symbolize? When John McNab states that others will build one once they see the McNabs, why does this make Maniac sick? Why should it make anyone sick?
Essay Topic 2
Why doesn't Maniac choose to remain at the Pickwell house? Why does he not choose this loving family as his own when he knows that they would embrace him? What does this say about Maniac's past and his future?
Essay Topic 3
How and why does Maniac take on the raising of Russell and Piper? Why does he have influence over them? What does this say about Maniac's character?
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