Maniac Magee Discussion Questions and Quiz

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Maniac Magee Discussion Questions and Quiz

• Book by Jerry Spinelli
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Why did Maniac (Jeffrey) start screaming at the
school musical? _at_

• He wanted to go back to the house of two
  toasters.
• He was sad because everyone hated him at school.
• He was mad at his aunt and uncle for hating each
  other.
• He didnt want to be Catholic like his aunt and
  uncle.

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How many miles did Maniac run?

• 800 miles
• 200 miles
• 400 miles
• 900 miles
• 550 miles

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What did Maniac think Amanda was doing?

• Going to school
• Reading
• Running away
• Eating banana pancakes

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How many blocks long was Cobblers Knot?

• 10 blocks
• 4 and a half blocks
• 3 and a half blocks
• 5 blocks

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Who lived on the east side?

• Whites
• Hispanics
• Blacks
• Asians

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What is Maniac allergic to?

• Hot sauce
• Pollen
• Flowers
• Pizza

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Grayson knew a lot about blacks

• True
• False

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Quotes Chapter 1 _at_ (I got Fun Friday)

• Never again to return to the house of two
  toasters. That is a quote from chapter 1 read by
  the narrorrator. Since Maniacs aunt and uncle
  hate each other but cant get a divorce, they
  have two of everything in the house. That means
  they have two toasters in the house making it the
  house of two toasters. Maniac Magee will never
  return to the house of two toasters.

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Discussion Questions

• The birth of Maniacs legacy was when he
  screamed at his aunt and uncle and ran away,
  earning the name Maniac Magee. He ran 200
  miles, and by the time he was done, the soles of
  his shoes were torn.

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QuotesChapter 3

• The quote for chapter 3 was its not where I
  am, Its where Im from. Maniac said that when
  where he was from and if he wasnt from here, why
  was he over here. He wasnt from the west or the
  east side.

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Discussion questions

• The first person Maniac had a conversation with
  was Amanda when he walked into town. Maniac Magee
  saw her suitcase and thought she was running away
  too. He asked her if she was running away but
  Amanda was really just going to school.

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Other questions _at_ _at_

• What did Amanda mean by the east side and the
  west side?
• She meant all the black people live on one side
  and all the white people live on the other side.

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McNabQuote

• McNab could already feel his strikeout record
  fading to a mere grain in the sandlot of history
  is the quote for chapter 3. It means that McNab
  wouldnt be known as the guy who struck out
  everyone because The Runt (Maniac) had hit one
  of McNabs fastballs.

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How Maniac adds to his legacyChapter 4

• Maniac adds to his legacy by intercepting a pass
  to Hands Down (with one hand),who is a good
  football player. He also rescued a kid from
  Finsterwalds backyard after a group of high
  schoolers threw him over the fence. He also
  joined the Pickwells for dinner so they met him.
  By the end of the day, pretty much everyone knew
  about Maniac Magee.

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Quoteschapter 12

• Mars Bar did not stop until he was in Maniacs
  phone booth of space is the quote from chapter
  10. The narrator says it and it means that Mars
  Bar was very close to Maniac before he stopped
  and didnt really give him any personal space.

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The Finsterwallies

• You can get the Finsterwallies by being in
  Finsterwalds backyard or near it. It makes your
  body tremble and your teeth chatter. You can get
  rid of them by getting away from the backyard.

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But everyone did not love him back

• The narrator says this. It means that Maniac
  loved everyone. He didnt care if they were black
  or white. But not everyone loved him. He didnt
  know any better so he would go to the east side
  and didnt care if he lived with black people or
  white people.

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The Beales

• 1 After Maniac moved in with the Beales, the
  Hester and Lester stopped making messes
  everywhere because Maniac would entertain them.
• 2 Maniac finally knows what a good family feels
  like and he doesnt want to run away anymore.
• 3 Cobblers Knot is a giant knot that, if you
  can untie it, gets you a years supply of large
  pizzas. It takes Maniac a while, but he finally
  gets it untied after all the practice with little
  kids shoes. But, unfortunately, Maniac Magee is
  allergic to pizza.

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Cobbles Knot

• If the wonders of the world hadnt stopped at 7,
  Cobbles Knot would have been number 8. The
  narrator says that when Amanda is explaining to
  him about Cobbles Knot. It is a very, very, very
  big knot that, when it is untied, is 4 and a half
  blocks long.

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Grayson

• Grayson was an old man who rescued Maniac from
  the zoo where he had been living. Grayson lives
  with Maniac and takes care of him until sometime
  after Christmas, He doesnt wake up in the
  morning and right when Maniac thinks he has a
  friend again, Grayson dies. Maniac just keeps
  running

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Online Questions chapters 1-5

• 1 His parents were killed in a train crash (C)
• 2 8 (B)
• 3 His aunt and uncle did not get along (A)
• 4 The Lost Year (D)
• 5 200 miles (B)
• 6 Amanda Beale (C)
• 7 He was white (D)
• 8 Books (A)
• 9 He did it with a book in one hand (D)
• 10 He sat down on Finsterwalds steps and read
  (B)

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Online Questions chapters 6-16

• 1 The steel rails (C)
• 2 Frog (D)
• 3 Yelling Talk, talk, and running away (C)
• 4 A deer shed at Elmwood Park zoo (B)
• 5 Chased him out of town (B)
• 6 People dont eat after each other,
  black/white (C)
• 7 Maniac promised to take care of it (D)
• 8 Go out to get his address (B)
• 9 Pizza (B)
• 10 He didnt want to lose the last thing he had
  from his parents. (B)

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Online Questions chapters 17-21

• 1 Whitey (C)
• 2 Fishbelly go home (B)
• 3 Cobbles Knot (A)
• 4 One free pizza a week for a year (B)
• 5 Until dinnertime (B)
• 6 Encyclopedia a (C)
• 7 Middle of the road (C)

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Online Questions 22-26

• 1 Elmwood Park Zoo (B)
• 2 He didnt have a home (C)
• 3 He thought he was bad luck to people around
  him (B)
• 4 He pitched his worst game in front of the
  scouts. (C)
• 5 Bought books (C)
• 6 Teach him to read (B)

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Online Questions 27-32

• 1 The Little Engine that could (C)
• 2 Because he felt at home there (A)
• 3 The Man who Struck out Willie Mays (C)
• 4 His baseball glove (A)
• 5 He died (D)

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Online Questions chapters 33-36

• 1 Checked the other cabins (B)
• 2 Mexico (B)
• 3 John McNab (C)
• 4 Hole from 2nd to 1st floor (B)
• 5 The attention they got because of Maniac (C)

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Online Questions for chapters 37-46

• 1 Go into the east side (B)
• 2 He disgraced him by running backwards (A)
• 3 They got Graysons glove (C)
• 4 He thought they would welcome him (B)
• 5 Mars Bar (B)
• 6 Got stuck on trestle in front of trolley (C)
• 7 He avoided the trestle because of his parents
  deaths (B)
• 8 Home and family (C)