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  • Did Maniac Magee have any siblings?
    No
  • What got Hester and Lester to take a bath?
    Maniac took baths with them.
  • What three things did Hester and Lester do when Maniac moved in? (give me two for points)
    Stopped coloring on the walls and furniture, started taking baths, stopped damaging Amanda's books.
  • What was the name of the black family that took Maniac in?
    The Beales
  • What was Maniac's favorite food?
    butterscotch krimpets
  • How did Jeffrey get the nickname "Maniac"?
    When talking about him, someone may have said, "Kid's gotta be a maniac." They didn't know his actual name, so the nickname stuck.
  • Why did Maniac run away from his aunt and uncles? house?
    They had two of everything. They split time with him and they did not speak to each other.
  • In which end did the Beale family live?
    The East End
  • In the story, what end did the white people live on?
    The West End
  • What made Russell and Piper go to school?
    Maniac kept making deals with them.
  • What was Maniac allergic to?
    Pizza
  • How did Maniac figure out he was allergic to pizza?
    He had pizza for the first time at the Beales. He had an allergic reaction to it and they took him to the doctor.
  • What was the name of the white family that fed Maniac?
    The Pickwells
  • Why did Maniac not save Russell?
    He was scared. He didn't want to go out there because that is where his parents died.
  • What happened to Maniac's parents?
    When he was three, they were killed when the trolley crashed into the river.
  • Who carried around a suitcase full of books?
    Amanda Beale
  • What happened to Maniac when the children were playing the fire hydrant water?
    An old man called him "Whitey" and told him to go back to his own kind.
  • What did Maniac teach Grayson?
    to read
  • What happened after Mars Bar followed Maniac and backed him up against a wall?
    A woman hit Mars Bar with her broom and Mars ran away.
  • What did Grayson teach Maniac?
    Baseball--specifically the "stop ball" pitch
  • In which end did the Pickwell family live?
    The West End
  • Who did Maniac take with him to a party at the McNab house?
    Mars Bar
  • How many years did Maniac live with his aunt and uncle?
    8 years.
  • In which end did the McNab family live?
    The West End
  • How did Maniac feel at the end of the book?
    Content, happy, wanted, loved
  • Where was the place that Jeffrey ran where everyone else had only every walked? (He did this after he left the Pickwell house for the FIRST time)
    The railroad tracks (and he had a book in his hand)
  • What is Jeffrey's real name?
    Jeffrey Lionel Magee
  • Why did Jeffrey leave the Beales house?
    He didn't want to cause them any more issues or problems.
  • In the story, what end did the black people live on?
    The East End
  • What did Maniac think of every time he crossed the bridge over the Schuylkill River?
    His parents being killed.
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