Freak the Mighty Chapters 5-21

At the end of chapter 5, why does Max lay down and cry after having dinner at Kenins?

• He was hurt about Gwen's wrong first impression

• He had eaten too much

• He was so extremely happy

• He was sad that he had no parents

In chapter 5, Gwen called to apologize and invite Max to dinner because...

• She thought Max wanted to hurt Kevin

• Kevin was sorry and wanted a friend

• Grim and Gram were fighting

• She had called him names

Pg 22- "Gram walks in and I can see her eyes flitting nervously around the room like she is crossing the border into a really foreign country."

What is the purpose of this simile?

• to show that Gram has something important to say

• to say Gram is entering a new country in the down under

• to imply that Gram is uncomfortable in Max's room

• to express that Gram wishes she could spend more time with Max

What type of figurative language is used in this quote:

""...and then the first really big rocket whams off, a humongous thud!"

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

Check all the quotes that use a simile.

• "...and it sounds like World War III..."

• "Real shrill and shivery and so loud it hurts my ears."

• "...fireworks explode like hot pink flowers in the sky.."

• "...and he bangs on the bulkhead, wonka-wonka-wonka..."

What literary device is found below?

Most of the inside walls are gone, and you can see where the center beam was chewed by the fire.

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

What literary device is found below?

I’m sitting there in the snow squinting up at Iggy and all these cops, there must be a million cops...”

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

What literary device is found below?

It all goes to show, like Grim says, that you can’t always judge a book by the cover.

• hyperbole

• simile

• idiom

In Chapter 8: What is a word that could describe how Grim and Gram feel about Max when they offer him ice cream a towel, and coffee?__________ After what happened at Millpond, they begin to see that Max is a good boy.

• Proud

• disappointed

• anger

What can you infer about Max from the following quote? “There’s a place I go inside my head sometimes. It’s cool and dim in there and you float like a cloud-no, you are a cloud, the kind you see in the sky on a windy day, the way they keep changing shape except you can’t really see it changing? It just sort of happens, and suddenly you realize the cloud that looks like a big hand with fat fingers now looks like a catcher’s mitt, or a big soft tv set" (Philbrick).

• Max likes to watch tv

• Max likes to play sports

• Max is lazy

• Max lets his mind wander