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WorksheetsFreak the Mighty REVIEW
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 42mins
Where is Max's room?
main floor
second floor
garage
basement
What is Kevin trying to retrieve from the tree in his back yard?
ornithopter
helicopter
kite
scarf
What did Freak tell Max the word "sobriquet" meant, when he referred to his grandfather as Grim?
A joke
An old wizard
A nickname
An old king
What was Freak's real name?
Devin
Max
Kevin
Tevin
How does Max feel about the fact that everyone thinks it's a big deal that he looks like his father?
it does not bother him
He is afraid that everyone thinks he is dangerous like his father and that he will turn out like his dad.
He looks up to his dad and wants to be just like him.
The tenements are very run down and not kept well. The buildings are very old and dirty. What are tenements?
buildings that are low rent and barely meet minimum standards
fancy places to live
mansions where rich people live
If Max is the spitting image of his dad, what does this mean?
That he looks just like his dad.
That he looks like his mom.
That he looks like grim.
Match the following definitions with the vocabulary word
Ornithopter
a robotic bird
Unvanquished
not defeated, unconquered
Converging
meets at a point
Humanoid
containing human qualities
Organize the character trait to the character
Max
Tall
Freak
Short
Gwen
Beautiful
Tony D.
leader of a gang
What piece of evidence supports that Max was antisocial?
"I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for a while, and that's the truth, the whole truth"
"I'm just this critter hiding out in the basement, drooling in my comic books or whatever."
"And Gram right away shushes him and says don't ever say that, because little pictures have big ears, which makes me run to the mirror to see if it is my big ears made me look like him."
What piece of evidence supports that Max looks like his dad?
"And Gram right away shushes him and says don't ever say that, because little pictures have big ears, which makes me run to the mirror to see if it is my big ears made me look like him."
"I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for a while, and that's the truth, the whole truth"
Who is Kenny Kane?
Freak's Dad
Grim's real name
Max's Dad
Freak's Grandpa
Who is the narrator of the story?
Gwen
Max
Freak
Gram
Compare and Contrast Freak (Kevin) and Max. What is one way they are the same? What is one way they are different?
Which type of figurative language is being used in the following example? "They're like bugs," my father says. "They're not too smart, but there's lots of them and they keep at it" (Philbrick).
simile
idiom
hyperbole
personification
Which type of figurative language is being used in the following example? "Most of the walls are gone, and you can see where the center beam was chewed by the fire" (Philbrick).
simile
idiom
hyperbole
personification
What did Max reveal when his father was hurting Loretta?
that he wanted to go home
that he saw his father hurt his mother
that he thought Iggy was involved in his kidanpping
that he really wanted to go on a trip with his father
What is the ornithopter a symbol of?
Freak's fears
Freak's disappointment
Freak's desire to be free
Freak's ability to share
To defeat thoroughly
Vanquish
Phony
Periodic
Depleted
"He's about a thousand years old."
What type of figurative language is being used here?
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
What does Max find out when he goes to the hospital?
Kevin has died
Kevin is in surgery
Kevin got his new body
The doctor is sick
What did Max learn about Freak?
He wasn't really going to get a new body.
He had cancer.
He had a lot of money saved.
He was an orphan.
What did Max do with the notebook?
He burned it.
Threw it in the garbage.
Wrote a book of the Adventures of Freak the Mighty.
Mailed it to Gwen because he didn't know how to write.
What medical procedure did Freak have in the hospital?
tracheotomy
heart transplant
What is the exposition of Freak the Mighty
Max thinks he is dumb
Characters are introduced and setting is explained
What is the conflict that Max has in the story?
He thinks he is dumb and unlovable
He wants to know who his father is
What is the rising action in Freak the Mighty?
Kevin dies in the hospital after having a seizure
Max and Kevin go on many adventures together as Freak the Mighty
What is the climax of the story?
Max and Kevin get stuck in the pond
Kenny Kane kidnaps Max and Kevin rescues him
What is the falling action in the story?
On his birthday, Kevin has a seizure and is rushed to the hospital where he dies. He asks Max to write down their adventures for him.
Kevin and Max return the purse to Loretta and are harassed by her and her husband Iggy
What is the resolution of the story?
Max has outbursts like he did when he was younger.
After mourning his friend, Max picks up the blank book Kevin left him and begins to write their story.
