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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. Where does Maniac wind up after he runs from the baseball game?
2. What does Maniac do for fifteen minutes before completing the knot?
3. What does John McNab do to the Green Sox team at the Little League game?
4. What does Maniac say trash words have in common with church words?
5. Who specifically has tried to untie the knot before Maniac?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is the big black man so upset that Maniac is playing in the fire hydrant water?
2. How does Grayson's background shape the man he has become today?
3. How does Amanda treat Maniac differently than everyone else in Chapter 11 and previous chapters?
4. Why does Maniac walk right out of town after he realizes that the encyclopedia has been used for confetti?
5. How does the Beale household change now that Maniac lives there?
6. How is it that Maniac could have a meal at the Pickwell house and nobody questions his presence?
7. How is Maniac blind?
8. How does Maniac help others and what are his motives in doing so?
9. What does the reader learn about Maniac's personality through the scene of Mars Bar and Maniac and the candy bar?
10. How is the scene in the kitchen between Mrs. Beale and Maniac both ironic and symbolic?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the relationship between Maniac and Mars Bar grow? What do each of the boys give to the other that each is lacking? How does this relationship epitomize the good in human nature?
Essay Topic 2
What is Maniac truly searching for for himself? How is this search a theme of the novel?
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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