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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 does Maniac say to the passersby when he first runs to Two Mills?
2. With what does Mars Bar Thompson challenge Maniac?
3. Where does Maniac live while he stays in Two Mills?
4. Why does Carson scratch Maniac's skin?
5. What is the prize for untying the Cobble's Knot?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is it that Maniac could have a meal at the Pickwell house and nobody questions his presence?
2. Why does Maniac say Amen when Grayson finishes reading his first book and what effect does it have on Grayson?
3. What is the underlying reason that Maniac wants to leave town after the incident at the fire hydrant party?
4. What is Grayson so curious about that he obviously has no understanding of during his meal with Maniac at the diner?
5. How does Maniac manage to infuriate McNab and does he do it on purpose?
6. How is Maniac blind?
7. How does the story of Grayson't past affect Maniac?
8. Why won't Maniac go to school?
9. Why does Maniac walk right out of town after he realizes that the encyclopedia has been used for confetti?
10. How do the Beale's show that they are not prejudiced people?
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
How is Amanda the staying power for Maniac? What makes her different from everyone else that he encounters? How does she ultimately change Maniac?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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