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Vocabulary
Who
Why
What
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100
Fake
What is phony?
100
The narrator of the story.
Who is Maxwell?
100
Maxwell looks like his father and is afraid Max will inherit his fathers character.
Why Grim is concerned about Maxwell?
100
a brain
What didn’t Max have until Freak moved down the street?
100
Rodman Philbrick
Who the author of the book is?
200
Force that sends foward
What is propulsion?
200
“. . . 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 . . . .”
Who is Freak?
200
Maybe it was those crutches kept me from lashing out at him.
Why does Maxwell never get around to kicking Freak?
200
It is a plastic bird, light as a feather. Freak calls the plastic bird an ornithopter.
What does Max retrieve from the tree for Freak?
200
He thinks Freak is fierce, but he thinks Freak’s crutches are cool and the leg braces are even more cool.
What is Max's thoughts of Freak?
300
Run hurriedly with short quick steps
What is scuttle?
300
Max's grandfather
Who is Grim?
300
He has the place to himself with no fear of Gram sticking her head in the door, asking what he is doing.
Why Max likes the down under?
300
King Arthur is a brand of flour Gram uses.
What Max knows about King Arthur?
300
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.
What does Freak do and say when Max asks him why he calls his mother “Fair Gwen of Air”?
400
The way a person behaves.
What is demeanor?
400
Max's grandmother
Who is Gram?
400
His mom is dead and dad is gone
Why Maxwell lives with Grim and Gram, his grandparents.
400
Max says Freak talks “. . . like right out of a dictionary. So smart you can hardly believe it.”
What observation does Max make about how Freak talks?
400
“. . . 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 . . . .”
How does Freak look when Max sees him for the second time?
500
nickname
What is sobriquet?
500
Freak's mother
Who is the "Fair Gwen of Air?"
500
He believes the knights were like the first human version of robots. Hundred of years before they had computers they were already attempting to exceed the design limitations of the human body.
Why Freak really interested in the knights?
500
“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.”
What is Freak’s version of the Arthurian Legend?
500
Robots are not just in the movies. Robotics, the science of designing and building functional robots, is a huge industry.
What does Freak tell Max about robots?