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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. How does Maniac respond when Grayson asks him about attending school?

2. Where does Maniac wind up after he runs from the baseball game?

3. How does Amanda react to Mars Bar concerning the ripped book?

4. Why does Maniac get out of bed to go to the front door of the Beale's house?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Grayson and Maniac teach each other and how does it affect them?

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

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

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

5. How is Maniac blind?

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

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

8. How does Amanda treat Maniac differently than everyone else in Chapter 11 and previous chapters?

9. Why won't Maniac go to school?

10. Why does Amanda think the Cobble Knot will solve Maniac's problems?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Maniac truly searching for for himself? How is this search a theme of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

What does Hector Street symbolize? How does the street affect the lives of those in both the East End and the West End?

Essay Topic 3

How is Amanda the staying power for Maniac? What makes her different from everyone else that he encounters? How does she ultimately change Maniac?

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