Question 1

Who is the narrator of the story?

Accepted Answer

Max

Answer

Gwen

Answer

Gram

Answer

Kevin

Question 2

Who are Gram and Grim?

Accepted Answer

Max's Grandparents

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Kevin's Grandparents

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Max's aunt and uncle

Answer

Max's mom and dad

Question 3

Max sees Freak for the first time in day care. What does Max think of Freak?

Accepted Answer

He thinks he is fierce looking but his leg braces are cool.

Answer

he dislikes him for the way he looks.

Answer

he is not someone he wants to be friends with

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he is weird and not too smart

Question 4

Identify who "HIM" is.

Accepted Answer

Max's father

Answer

Max's uncle

Answer

Kevin's father

Answer

Max's grandfather

Question 5

Why is Grim concerned about Maxwell?

Accepted Answer

He is concerned because Maxwell looks like his father and is afraid Max will inherit
his father’s character.

Answer

He thinks Max will try and go to be with his father.

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he thinks Max will run away like his father did.

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He is worried he won't grow up to be a good guy like his dad.

Question 6

What didn’t Max have until Freak moved down the street?

Accepted Answer

a brain

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a enemy

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a friend

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a toy

Question 7

Describe the down under. Why does Max like the down under?

Accepted Answer

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.

Answer

The down under is Max's study room he goes to to do his school work.

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The down under is a make believe place Max has to escape reality.

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The down under is a place Max goes to hide from everyone.

Question 8

The second time Max sees Freak, he is giving orders to the moving men. Describe how
 Freak looks when Max sees him.

Accepted Answer

“. . . 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 . . . .”

Question 9

What does Max retrieve from the tree for Freak?

Accepted Answer

a plastic bird called an ornithopter

Answer

a metal bird

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a kite

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a paper airplane

Question 10

What observation does Max make about how Freak talks?

Accepted Answer

He talks like right out of a dictionary.  So smart you can hardly believe it.

Answer

He talks very slow and stutters his words.

Answer

He talks like a professor at a University.

Answer

He talks like his is not too smart.

Question 11

What does Freak do and say when Max asks him why he calls his mother “Fair Gwen of
 Air”?

Accepted Answer

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.

Answer

He walks off and ignores Max telling him the question is dumb.

Answer

He laughs and says she is his aunt who lived during the time King Arthur did.

Answer

He rolls his eyes and sighs and then tells him it is all a made up story.

Question 12

What does Max know about King Arthur?

Accepted Answer

King Arthur is a brand of flour Gram uses.

Answer

He thinks he is the current king

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he thinks he is the ruler of England.

Answer

he knows all about him

Question 13

What is Freak’s version of the Arthurian Legend?

Accepted Answer

“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.”

Question 14

Why is Freak really interested in the knights?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 15

What does Freak tell Max about robots?

Accepted Answer

Robots are not just in the movies. Robotics, the science of designing and building
functional robots, is a huge industry.

Answer

Robots are very real and no one know more about them than him.

Answer

Robots are cheap, fake and not real.

Answer

Robots are not real and only in movies.

Question 16

What is Freak’s mother’s reaction to seeing Max?

Accepted Answer

she is scared and runs away

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she is unhappy and screams at Max

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she is happy and hugs him

Answer

she is mad at Freak and fusses at him.

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