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

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

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."

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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."

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

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

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

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."

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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.

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

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.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3