Families
How is the Pickwell family like the Beale family?
Both families are basically kind and loving, friendly, giving, accepting.
Why does Maniac take Mars Bar to the party at the McNabs?
Maniac wants the family to see a real black person and stop making up stories about them.
Mars Bar takes Russell home to his own mother.
shenanigans
antics, mischievousness, horseplay, monkey business, fooling around
How did Mrs. Pickwell call the children in for dinner?
She whistled.
Why doesn't Maniac feel he can go to Mars Bar's house?
Maniac is afraid of getting comfortable and losing it again.
If a person in Two Mills had gone out to the street on a July morning, what scene would have probably surprised him or her?
The citizens would have seen Maniac and Mars Bar running together, but not talking to one another.
goaded
teased, harassed, provoked
Why doesn't Maniac want to leave the McNabs?
Maniac feels he cannot give up on Piper and Russell as everyone else has.
Why couldn't Maniac go u[p on the trestle to save Russell?
The trestle is the place his parents died.
How old was Maniac when he became an orphan?
3
chaotic
total lack of organization
Why does Maniac go with Amanda Beale?
Maniac now truly believes he will be able to stay at the Beale house forever.
nonchalantly
in an unconcerned or uninterested manner
surged
a strong forward movement ex: the crowd surged