Freak the Mighty Chapters 8-12 w Vocabulary

What secret does Max promise to keep about the Medical Research building?

• Inside is a secret laboratory called The Experimental Growth Unit. At some future time Freak will enter the lab and become taller with miracle medicine.

• Inside is a secret laboratory called The Experimental Fishonics Unit. At some future time Freak will enter the lab and have his legs replaced with a fish tail.

• Inside is a secret laboratory called The Experimental Bionics Unit. At some future time Freak will enter the lab and become the first biconically improved human.

• It actually covers the secret entrance to a dragon's lair filled with riches.

What does Freak tell Max when he asks if the transplant will hurt and if it is dangerous?

• “Sure it will hurt. Life is dangerous.”

• "I feat on pain!"

• "Danger is my middle name!"

• "Shaddup, Cabbage-head!"

What is the treasure in the storm drain?

• A statue of a clown holding a red balloon.

• $1.27

• a purse

• One-eyed Willie's "rich stuff".

How did the treasure get into the storm drain?

• Loretta Lee dropped it.

• One ofTony D.’s punks stuffed it in the sewer.

• It got washed there in the rainstorm.

• Pennywise put it there a s a trap.

Identify Loretta Lee.

• The gold Max and Freak find in the storm drain belongs to her. She lives in the Old Tenements with Iggy. She knew Killer Kane and Freak’s mom, Gina.

• The “treasure” purse Max and Freak find in the storm drain belongs to her. She lives in the New Tenements with Iggy. She knew Killer Kane and Freak’s mom, Gwen.

• The “treasure” purse Max and Freak find in the storm drain belongs to her. She lives in Tucson with Ziggy. She knew Killer Kane and Freak’s mom, Geraldine.

• She's Max's mom.

What does Max know about Iggy?

• He is the boss of The Panheads, a bad-news motorcycle gang.

• Max knows that Iggy is a talented musician and a terrible friend.
• He's Kevin's dad.

• He's Humperdink's brother.

• As near as Percy could figure, he was __________,

• because words got twisted around when he tried to read.

  The Son of Neptune

• dispeptic

• smug

• dyslexic

• • dyclexis

Why does Iggy let Max and Freak leave without messing with them?

• He was scared they would go to the police.

• He's really a big swetie.

• He did not want to take the chance that Killer Kane would find out he was messing with his kid.

• He realized that Max is also a Greaser.

A specific kind of smile, one that suggests self-satisfaction,

smugness, or even pleasure at someone else's unhappiness or misfortune.

• Smug

• Smack

• Smirk

• Splat

What does Freak teach Max that no one else has been able to do?

• how to read a whole book, and it all makes sense.

• how to fly a kite.

• karate.

• speak confidently in front of class.