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WorksheetsManiac Magee Part II
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 2hrs 45mins
Where does Grayson first find Jeffrey? (Ch.22)
the band shell
the deer shed
outside the buffalo pen
the equipment room
What quote best explains why Jeffrey does not want to go to school? (Ch. 23)
"School. Home. No, he was not going to have one without the other."
"The kid looked terrible. His clothes were scraps, rags."
"Not if they don't find me."
"If you try to make me, I'll just start running."
What quote best explains why Jeffery refuses to live with Grayson at the YMCA? (Ch. 24)
"Oh, it's not so bad here."
"Neither could Maniac explain that the bad luck he always seemed to have with parents had led him to the conclusion that he'd better stick to himself."
"Ah...its just like a mattress. I can feel myself dozing off already."
"He Lay down on the chest protectors and closed his eyes."
What does Jeffrey do with the money that Grayson gives him every morning?
buy butterscotch krimpets
save the money for Grayson's Christmas gift
buy used books at the library
send it to the Beale family to repay them for their kindness
What does Grayson ask Jeffrey to teach him at the end of Chapter 26?
throw a frogball
run on the train rails
untie Cobbler's knot
to learn how to read
Which quote best explains what Grayson and Maniac have in common? (Ch. 27)
"So why don't you go ahead and teach me how to read.
"The part I didn't tell him about Bluefield. I was only 15. I ran away."
"But the kid was a good manager, tough."
"you wanted to be a baseball player."
Read the following lines:
"I'm reading! yipped the old man. His smile was so wide he'd have had to break it into sections to fit through the doorway."
Spinelli uses a hyperbole to describe how:
frustrated Grayson feels
angry Grayson feels
proud Grayson feels
embarrassed Grayson feels
Open your book page 105. Read the last paragraph on page 105, starting with "The old man gave himself up willingly....). What sentence best summarizes this paragraph?
Grayson asks to stay over at the baseball shed.
Grayson falls asleep for the first time in many years with a happy and unburdened heart.
Grayson accidentally falls asleep in Maniac's baseball shed.
Grayson asks Maniac to stay with him at the YMCA.
What does Maniac mean when he describes his Thanksgiving with his aunt and uncle as "silent and lifeless as the mammoth bird they gnawed on"?
They never had such a beautiful turkey at his aunt and uncle's house.
His aunt and uncle did not appreciate their good fortune.
The bird was just to big for the three of them.
The holiday was lifeless and miserable.
What is the significance of Maniac painting 101 on the outside door of the equipment room?
It meant he can finally go to school.
It meant that he finally felt he had a home again.
He wanted the park supervisor to know he was living there.
He wanted to tell the Beales where he was living.
What special gift does Maniac give Grayson for Christmas?
a book he made about Grayson's baseball career
a baseball glove
butterscotch krimpets
a tied together scarf
What special gift does Grayson give Maniac for Christmas?
a woolen hat
a baseball bat
his old baseball glove
adoption papers
Which quote best explains why Maniac runs away at Grayson's funeral?
"Maniac was the only mourner."
"Give it two more minutes, then we'll see."
"Hey, Grayson, look- Mike Mulligan's steam shovel had a baby!"
"Whatever was going to happen at the end of the next minute, he didn't want to see."
What word best describes the mood in the following excerpt from chapter 32:
"When he looked out the window, it was night. He dragged the chest protectors alongside the old man's mat and lay down, and only then, when he closed his eyes, did he cry." (page 116)
relaxed
sentimental
somber
indifferent
Read the following excerpt from page 117:
"How long we gotta wait?"
The funeral man shrugged. All but one of the pallbearers lit up cigarettes...
"I'm freezing my cochongas off," a pallbearer announced.
"Me, too," said another.
"Hey, y'know"- called one of the grave diggers-"we ain't waiting all day to fill that hole."
The tone of this excerpt can best be describe as:
sympathetic
unsympathetic
friendly
threatening.
