Chapters 1-8
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This is the narrator of "Freak the Mighty"

What is Max?

100

This is where Freak and Max actually go on their quests

What is "they walk around town, but in their imagination, they are on great adventures"? 

100

This is how Kevin helps Max in school

What is...

Helps him learn to read

Gets him into general education classes

Gives him a friend to rely on

etc.

100

This means giving loyalty to someone, often a king

(Hombre, Grotty, or Fealty)

What is "Fealty"?

100

Name four of our class jobs

What is...

Folder Hander

Book Giver

Score Keeper

Time Keeper

Ticket Collector

Expectation Reader

Substitute

On Bat

200

This is the nickname for Kevin's mom

What is the "Fair Gwen of Air"?

200

This is what Freak and Max find in the sewer during an early morning quest

What is "Loretta's purse"?

200

This is why Max's father is called "Preacher Kane"

What is "he became religious in prison and at least acts like he is turning a new leaf" 

200

This means to have muscle spasms

(Spastic, Fiend, or swiftly)

What is "spastic"?

200

This type of context clue uses words with similar meaning

(Think of "S" in IDEAS)

What is "Synonym"?

300

The book takes place during the summer before this grade

What is 8th grade?

300

Describe the "New Testaments"

What is...

Where Iggy and Lorette leave

Run-down houses

Etc.

300

This is how Killer Kane feels the town treated him

What is...

they poisoned Max against him[

they thought the worst of him

they bullied him when he was in school, making cruel nicknames

300

This means extreme greed

(Fiend, Avarice, or Sobriquet)

What is "Avarice"?

300

C-SPACE in "POW+C-SPACE" stands for...

What is "Characters, Setting, Purpose, Action, Conclusion, Ending"?

400

This is the person Grim and Gram originally worried Max would turn out to be like

Who is Max's father?

400

This is why Max is switched to regular classes from lower level classes 

What is..

So Freak has someone to help him from class to class

Teachers hope being with a friend may be the push Max needs to improve

400

This is why chapter 15 is titled "What came down chimney"

What is "his dad kidnapped him and it is a play on words for Santa coming down the Chimney on Christmas Eve"

400

What is a measure taken in order to prevent something from happening?

(Kin, Truss, and Precaution)

What is "precaution"?

400

This type of context clue does not tell you the meaning, so you must use text clues

(Think of "I" in IDEAS)

What is "Inference"?

500

This is why the Fourth of July is so significant to Max (Multiple answers)

What is.... 

Max and Freak banned together to survive Tony D. and his gang. It was the first time they were really "Freak the Mighty"

It is the first time Max has been allowed to go to the fireworks without Gram and Grim

Max is given his first cup of coffee after saving Freak (even though he feels Freak saved him) and it feels like Grim and Gram finally notice him for who he is

500

This is what happens to Freak when he eats his Chopped Suey too fast

What is "He chokes and must go to the hospital"?

500

This is what goes wrong on Friday the 13th

(Note there are several things that go wrong, list at least one)

What is...

Mrs. Donelli calls on Max to answer a question 

Max gets called to the principal's office alone

Max learns his Dad is up for parole

Freak chokes on Chop Suey

500

This is the opposite of staying busy

(Opiate, Vegetating, Avarice)

What is "vegetating"?

500

This type of text informs us about a topic and is nonfiction


What is "informational text"?