Maniac Magee Part II

Where does Grayson first find Jeffrey? (Ch.22)

• the band shell

• the deer shed

• outside the buffalo pen

• the equipment room

What quote best explains why Jeffrey does not want to go to school? (Ch. 23)

• "School. Home. No, he was not going to have one without the other."

• "The kid looked terrible. His clothes were scraps, rags."

• "Not if they don't find me."

• "If you try to make me, I'll just start running."

What quote best explains why Jeffery refuses to live with Grayson at the YMCA? (Ch. 24)

• "Oh, it's not so bad here."

• "Neither could Maniac explain that the bad luck he always seemed to have with parents had led him to the conclusion that he'd better stick to himself."

• "Ah...its just like a mattress. I can feel myself dozing off already."

• "He Lay down on the chest protectors and closed his eyes."

What does Jeffrey do with the money that Grayson gives him every morning?

• buy butterscotch krimpets

• save the money for Grayson's Christmas gift

• buy used books at the library

• send it to the Beale family to repay them for their kindness

What does Grayson ask Jeffrey to teach him at the end of Chapter 26?

• throw a frogball

• run on the train rails

• untie Cobbler's knot

• to learn how to read

Which quote best explains what Grayson and Maniac have in common? (Ch. 27)

• "So why don't you go ahead and teach me how to read.

• "The part I didn't tell him about Bluefield. I was only 15. I ran away."

• "But the kid was a good manager, tough."

• "you wanted to be a baseball player."

Read the following lines:

"I'm reading! yipped the old man. His smile was so wide he'd have had to break it into sections to fit through the doorway."

Spinelli uses a hyperbole to describe how:

• frustrated Grayson feels

• angry Grayson feels

• proud Grayson feels

• embarrassed Grayson feels

Open your book page 105. Read the last paragraph on page 105, starting with "The old man gave himself up willingly....). What sentence best summarizes this paragraph?

• Grayson asks to stay over at the baseball shed.

• Grayson falls asleep for the first time in many years with a happy and unburdened heart.

• Grayson accidentally falls asleep in Maniac's baseball shed.

• Grayson asks Maniac to stay with him at the YMCA.

What does Maniac mean when he describes his Thanksgiving with his aunt and uncle as "silent and lifeless as the mammoth bird they gnawed on"?

• They never had such a beautiful turkey at his aunt and uncle's house.

• His aunt and uncle did not appreciate their good fortune.

• The bird was just to big for the three of them.

• The holiday was lifeless and miserable.

What is the significance of Maniac painting 101 on the outside door of the equipment room?

• It meant he can finally go to school.

• It meant that he finally felt he had a home again.

• He wanted the park supervisor to know he was living there.

• He wanted to tell the Beales where he was living.