Chapter 10
1. How does Maniac meet Mars Bar Thompson?
2. What unthinkable thing does Maniac do in Chapter 10?
3. What is special about an East End lady in her prime?
Chapter 11
1. How is Amanda like an "East End lady in her prime"?
2. How did the high school basketball players react to
Amanda and Jeffery and the torn book?
Chapter 12
1. What was Maniac's reception at Amanda's home?
2. Why did Maniac make a special point of checking the
house number at the Beales?
Chapter 13
1. What are the "such as" phrases the author used in this
chapter?
2. How did Maniac affect the Beal household?
3. What is Maniac's allergy?
Chapter 14
1. What are the particular things Maniac loved about his
new life?
2. What were the colors of the east end?
3. How are Jeffery and Maniac different?
Chapter 15
1. How did Maniac's fame spread all over the east end?
2. What are different reactions to trash talk in chapter
15?
Chapter 16
1. What kinds of things did Maniac see?
Chapter 17
1. How did the east end folks deal with a hot day in
August?
2. Why did the man at the "party" call Maniac "Whitey"?
Was the man justified?
3. What was the reason for the paint on the Beales' house?
Chapter 18
1. What is the nature of the conversation between Amanda
and Maniac after the "fishbelly" incident?
2. What were Maniac's special abilities and talents?
Chapter 19
1. What is Cobble's Knot?
Chapter 20
1. How did Maniac begin on Cobble's Knot?
2. Who is "like some fairytale tailor"?
Chapter 21
1. Why did Maniac leave town?
2. Why didn't uncoiling Cobble's Knot help Maniac's
situation?
Chapter 22
1. Where do you meet Jeffrey at the start of Part II?
2. Who discovers Jeffery?
3. Why was Jeffery reverted to the name Jeffery?
Chapter 23
1. What is the fist thing Grayson does for Jeffery once
he's been fed?
2. What is Jeffery's reason for avoiding school?
Chapter 24
1. What do Grayson's questions about the Beales tell you
about him?
2. Where does Maniac sleep after meeting Grayson?
got to go will finish chapters 25-42 tomorrow