Maniac Magee Discussion Questions and Quiz

1. Maniac Magee Discussion Questions and Quiz Book by Jerry Spinelli *@

2. Why did Maniac (Jeffrey) start screaming at the school musical? @ • 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 didn’t want to be Catholic like his aunt and uncle.

3. How many miles did Maniac run? # • 800 miles • 200 miles • 400 miles • 900 miles • 550 miles

4. What did Maniac think Amanda was doing? • Going to school • Reading • Running away • Eating banana pancakes

5. How many blocks long was Cobblers Knot? • 10 blocks • 4 and a half blocks • 3 and a half blocks • 5 blocks

6. Who lived on the east side? • Whites • Hispanics • Blacks • Asians

7. What is Maniac allergic to? • Hot sauce • Pollen • Flowers • Pizza

8. Grayson knew a lot about blacks • True • False

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12. Quotes Chapter 1 @ (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 Maniac’s aunt and uncle hate each other but can’t 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.

13. Discussion Questions The birth of Maniac’s 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.

14. QuotesChapter 3 The quote for chapter 3 was “it’s not where I am, It’s where I’m from. Maniac said that when where he was from and if he wasn’t from here, why was he over here. He wasn’t from the west or the east side.

15. 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.

16. Other questions @@ 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.

17. 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 wouldn’t be known as the guy who struck out everyone because “The Runt” (Maniac) had hit one of McNab’s fastballs.

18. 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 Finsterwald’s backyard after a group of high schoolers threw him over the fence. He also joined the Pickwell’s for dinner so they met him. By the end of the day, pretty much everyone knew about Maniac Magee.

19. Quoteschapter 12 Mars Bar did not stop until he was in Maniac’s phone booth of space is the quote from chapter 10. The narrator says it and it means that Mar’s Bar was very close to Maniac before he stopped and didn’t really give him any personal space.

20. The Finsterwallies You can get the Finsterwallies by being in Finsterwald’s 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.

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

22. 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 doesn’t want to run away anymore. #3 Cobbler’s Knot is a giant knot that, if you can untie it, gets you a year’s supply of large pizzas. It takes Maniac a while, but he finally gets it untied after all the practice with little kid’s shoes. But, unfortunately, Maniac Magee is allergic to pizza.

23. Cobble’s Knot If the wonders of the world hadn’t stopped at 7, Cobble’s Knot would have been number 8. The narrator says that when Amanda is explaining to him about Cobble’s Knot. It is a very, very, very big knot that, when it is untied, is 4 and a half blocks long.

24. 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 doesn’t wake up in the morning and right when Maniac thinks he has a friend again, Grayson dies. Maniac just keeps running…

25. 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 Finsterwald’s steps and read (B)

26. 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 don’t 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 didn’t want to lose the last thing he had from his parents. (B)

27. Online Questions chapters 17-21 #1 Whitey (C) #2 Fishbelly go home (B) #3 Cobble’s 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)

28. Online Questions 22-26 #1 Elmwood Park Zoo (B) #2 He didn’t 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)

29. 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)

30. 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)

31. Online Questions for chapters 37-46 #1 Go into the east side (B) #2 He disgraced him by running backwards (A) #3 They got Grayson’s 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 parent’s deaths (B) #8 Home and family (C)