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Freak the Mighty Chapters 1-4 quiz

Quiz by Leslie Kiser

Grade 6
English
North Carolina Standard Course of Study

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  • Q1
    Who is the narrator of the story?
    Gwen
    Max
    Gram
    Kevin
    45s
  • Q2
    Who are Gram and Grim?
    Kevin's Grandparents
    Max's aunt and uncle
    Max's Grandparents
    Max's mom and dad
    45s
  • Q3
    Max sees Freak for the first time in day care. What does Max think of Freak?
    he dislikes him for the way he looks.
    He thinks he is fierce looking but his leg braces are cool.
    he is not someone he wants to be friends with
    he is weird and not too smart
    45s
  • Q4
    Identify who "HIM" is.
    Max's uncle
    Kevin's father
    Max's grandfather
    Max's father
    45s
  • Q5
    Why is Grim concerned about Maxwell?
    He thinks Max will try and go to be with his father.
    He is concerned because Maxwell looks like his father and is afraid Max will inherit his father’s character.
    he thinks Max will run away like his father did.
    He is worried he won't grow up to be a good guy like his dad.
    45s
  • Q6
    What didn’t Max have until Freak moved down the street?
    a enemy
    a friend
    a toy
    a brain
    45s
  • Q7
    Describe the down under. Why does Max like the down under?
    The down under is Max's study room he goes to to do his school work.
    The down under is a make believe place Max has to escape reality.
    The down under is a place Max goes to hide from everyone.
    The down under is a little room Grim built in the basement for Max. The paneling buckles in a regular ripple effect, and the carpet smells like low tide. He has the place to himself with no fear of Gram sticking her head in the door, asking what he is doing.
    45s
  • Q8
    The second time Max sees Freak, he is giving orders to the moving men. Describe how Freak looks when Max sees him.
    “. . . he’s got a normal-sized head, but the rest of him is shorter than a yardstick and kind of twisted in a way that means he can’t stand up and makes his chest puff out . . . .”
    45s
  • Q9
    What does Max retrieve from the tree for Freak?
    a metal bird
    a plastic bird called an ornithopter
    a kite
    a paper airplane
    45s
  • Q10
    What observation does Max make about how Freak talks?
    He talks very slow and stutters his words.
    He talks like a professor at a University.
    He talks like his is not too smart.
    He talks like right out of a dictionary. So smart you can hardly believe it.
    45s
  • Q11
    What does Freak do and say when Max asks him why he calls his mother “Fair Gwen of Air”?
    He walks off and ignores Max telling him the question is dumb.
    He laughs and says she is his aunt who lived during the time King Arthur did.
    Max notices that Freak tries not to show he is laughing inside. Freak shakes his head and tells Max his mother’s name is Gwen, so he calls her the Fair Guinevere or the Fair Gwen after Guinevere, from the legend of King Arthur.
    He rolls his eyes and sighs and then tells him it is all a made up story.
    45s
  • Q12
    What does Max know about King Arthur?
    He thinks he is the current king
    King Arthur is a brand of flour Gram uses.
    he thinks he is the ruler of England.
    he knows all about him
    45s
  • Q13
    What is Freak’s version of the Arthurian Legend?
    “King Arthur was the first king of England, way back when there were still dragons and monsters in the world. Arthur was this wimpy little kid, an orphan, and there was this magic sword stuck in a big stone. The old king died, and whoever could pull the sword from the stone proved he was the next king. All these big tough dudes came from all over to yank at the sword and they couldn’t budge it. One day this wimpy little kid tried it when nobody was looking and the sword slipped out like it was stuck in butter.”
    45s
  • Q14
    Why is Freak really interested in the knights?
    He believes the knights were like the first human version of robots. Hundreds of years before they had computers they were already attempting to exceed the design limitations of the human body.
    45s
  • Q15
    What does Freak tell Max about robots?
    Robots are very real and no one know more about them than him.
    Robots are cheap, fake and not real.
    Robots are not just in the movies. Robotics, the science of designing and building functional robots, is a huge industry.
    Robots are not real and only in movies.
    45s

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