Maniac Magee

After dinner, Jeffrey ran somewhere that the other kids had only walked. Where was it?

• up the side of the mountain in his bare feet

• along the roofs of the houses on Hector Street

• the entire length of the P&W trolley route in one hour

• on the railroad track rails with a book in his hand

Which sentence describes John McNab?

• John McNab was 15 years old, 6'5" tall and weighed 210 pounds.

• John McNab was 12 years old, 5'8" tall, and weighed more than 170 pounds.

• John McNab was 5 years old, only 4'9" tall and weighed 100 pounds.

How did the play between Jeffrey and John McNab end?

• McNab pitched a frog; Jeffrey bunted it and made a home run

• McNab pitched a fast ball; Jeffrey hit it out of the park, ran after it, and never came back.

• Jeffrey pitched his famous Maniac ball; McNab couldn't hit it, and lost the game.

• Jeffrey pitched a slow ball; McNab hit it, but Maniac caught it in the air and tagged him out.

Maniac got his name because people in the town were all talking about Jeffrey and his deeds. Someone probably said, "Kid's gotta be a maniac." Others agreed. Since they didn't know his real name, they started calling him Maniac.

• True

• False

Where did Jeffrey sleep and eat?

• in a junkyard full of abandoned cars.

• in the basement storeroom of the library; he sneaked in through a broken window.

• in the deer shed at the Elmwood Park Zoo.

• in the garage at one of the churches in town.

How did Jeffrey like Amanda's book?

• He didn't like it, but didn't remember where she lived to take it back.

• He liked the pictures, but couldn't read the words.

• He liked it, but was bored after he read it once.

• He was so fascinated that he read it over and over.

McNab and his pals, the Cobras, found Maniac on the train rail. They started throwing stones at him. Where did Maniac run to get away from them?

• into the Pickwell house

• to the buffalo pen at the zoo

• across Hector Street into East End

• up the P&W trestle and ran on the bridge over the river.

True or False: Maniac challenged Mars Bar to a race through the neighborhood. It was unthinkable because no white boy had ever run through the black neighborhood.

• True

• False

What happened to Amanda's book when Mars Bar snatched it?

• Mars Bar set it on fire.

• Maniac got it back and it was in perfect condition.

• Mars Bar threw it in the street and a truck ran over it.

• One paged ripped before Maniac got it back.

Mars Bar and some friends followed Maniac and backed him against a wall. What happened next?

• A woman in the neighborhood hit Mars Bar and the others with a brush and chased them away.

• A policeman saw them and stopped the fight.

• Amanda found them. She kicked Mars Bar; then she invited Maniac back to her house.

• Maniac jumped over the wall and ran away.