FREAK THE MIGHTY
Chapter 1
1. Who is narrating the story?
2. Max says, “ I never had a what before Freak came along?”
3. What was Max called in daycare?
4. “Little Freak” kept saying he was what?
5. What was Max called in third grade? (Give 2)
6. What is Grim's opinion of the narrator's father? Explain.
Chapter 2
1. What does Max call his room?
2. What is Kevin worried the movers are going to break?
3. What does Kevin call Max?
Chapter 3
1. What did Kevin lose in the trees?
2. What is Kevin hitting the tree with?
3. What does Max tow Kevin in?
Chapter 4
1. What does Max call his grandparents?
2. What does Kevin call his mom?
3. What was King Arthur’s magical sword called?
4. Who does Kevin say, “Were the first human version of robots?”
5. What is the “drug of fatheads” and the “opiate of the massives” according to Kevin?
6. It is obvious that Kevin is very interested in two key things in Chapter 4. Give a brief description of each & tell why you think he is interested in each.
Chapter 5
1. Where does Max lie to help him think?
2. Who does Max look like?
3. Where is Max’s father?
4. At dinner Gwen makes potato salad and what else?
5. What is the really weird feeling Max has at the end of chapter 5?
6. Max says, “He’s not a poor boy” when talking about Kevin to Grim and Gram. Explain why he doesn’t think he is a “poor” boy.
7. Why is it such a big deal that Max looks like his father?
Chapter 6
1. What holiday does Max say is when “Everybody goes nuts” in chapter six?
2. What do they call Tony D?
3. Tony D. asks them if they have “any.” What is he looking for?
4. What does Kevin call Tony D.?
5. What makes Tony D. run away?
6. Describe Tony D. in detail. (Thougths, Actions, Words)
Chapters 7 & 8
1. Where is Kevin sitting at the beginning of the chapter?
2. What does max have a problem with?
3. Where do Kevin and Max run?
4. Blake and his gang through what at Kevin and Max?
5. What does Grim give Max to drink to show that he is maturing?
6. What does Kevin call the missions he and Max go on during the summer?
7. What does Kevin do every time he looks up a word?
Chapters 9 & 10
1. What does Kevin pretend Max is when he is on his shoulders?
2. According to Kevin, what is “like blood without the red?”
3. They go to a special section of the hospital that says what over the door?
4. What is the “science of designing replacement parts for the human body?”
5. According to Kevin, what are they building in this department for him?
6. Kevin and Max go on a quest to get something out of the sewer. What was this object?
7. Again, Grim refers to Kevin as “poor Kevin” why does Max say that, “it’s not fair that everybody always says Poor Kevin,’ just because he didn’t grow.” Explain in detail.
Chapter 11
1. Where did Kevin and Max have to go to return the purse?
2. What was the nickname for these housing developments?
3. Whose purse was it?
4. What was Kevin’s father’s name?
5. What was his nickname?
6. What was the name of the person who was with the owner of the purse?
7. Why does Loretta say that Kevin’s father “must be a magician?”
8. Who are Iggy & Loretta Lee? What role do you think they will play in the novel? Explain your reasons.
9. Describe the New Tenements. Include details such as what it is called, what it looks like, who lives there, etc. Please put the details and your description into your own words.
Chapter 12
1. What word makes Max feel like he is getting jabbed with a needle?
2. Why does Gram take Max to the mall? To buy what?
3. Complete the following phrase: Killer Kane! Killer Kane! Had a kid who got no ______.
4. When Kevin is on Max’s shoulders what does Kevin say his name is?
5. Max and Kevin get sent to the principal’s office. What is her name?
6. Do Kevin and Max get in trouble? Explain why or why not.
7. What effect does Kevin sitting on Max's shoulders have on his class and teacher? What effect does it have on Max?
Chapter 13
1. What is the name of Max’s reading skills tutor?
2. Max gets called to the office and Kevin says, “ Just give ‘em name, rank, and ______.”
3. Kevin offers to lend Max what?
4. When he gets to the office his first reaction is what?
5. The second reason he thinks he is being called down for is?
6. Explain what happens with the American chop suey.
7. Mrs. Doneli tells Max, “If you can speak to me, then you can speak to your
classmates, right?” Max does not agree. Explain why.
8. How is hanging out with Kevin helping Max?
Chapter 14
1. According to Kevin, “ I’m growing on the ______but not the ______.
2. What does Grim never do at Gram?
3. Max’s father is up for what?
Chapter 15
1. Christmas Eve is really quiet. Like Freak says, “You could hear a mouse ______.”
2. According to Freak “ ______is a toxic waste of time.”
3. What does Max give Kevin for Christmas?
4. What does Kevin wrap his present to Max in?
5. What is the shape of the box that Kevin’s present is in?
6. Describe Kevin’s gift to Max.
Chapters 16 17
1. Who abducts Max?
2. When is Max abducted?
3. Max’s dad says, “You know what I think of when I see a neighborhood like this?” What does he think of?
4. Where does Max’s dad take him for shelter?
5. Max’s father says, “A boy who doesn’t know his own father might be dumb enough to______.” Dumb enough to what?
6. Kenneth Kane says, “ They poisoned you against me, I know that…give it time, you’ll see the truth.” What does he mean by this?
7. What does Kenneth do to Max’s hand and feet?
8. What do you think Max is feeling when his father takes him from the house? Explain.
9. Why does Max's father tie up Max?
Chapter 18
1. What food does Loretta bring Kenny and Max that has “vitamins and stuff?”
2. Kenneth has a plan that involves Max collecting what from people in front of a bus?
3. Kenneth says, “You want to see the ______?” Then he says, “I am the ______and don’t you ever forget it.” What word is he talking about?
4. Kenneth says, “You won’t have to steal it because folks will give to a man of” what?
5. Who did the police come to Iggy’s looking for?
6. Kenneth says that, “you can’t trust a ______.” What does he think that you can’t trust?
Chapter 19
1. Kenneth uses a simile when he talks about the police. He says, “ They’re like ______. They’re not too smart but there’s lots of them and they keep at it.” What does he think they are like?
2. Who says, “It ain’t right keeping your own kid tied up” to Max?
3. What does Kenneth do to this person?
4. Kenneth is a genius for what?
Chapter 20
1. What did Max see his father do?
2. How old was Max when his father id this?
3. Who comes to save Max?
4. What does he bring with him?
5. Where does he shoot Kenneth?
6. Explain how the water gun stops Kenneth.
Chapter 21
1. Where are they at the beginning of the chapter?
2. Where does Loretta Lee have a broken bone?
3. Max doesn’t want to go to school because Kevin is in the hospital but Gram says that Max has a what of his own?
4. Killer Kane pleads guilty so he has to serve his original sentence plus _____ years. How many extra years?
5. Max says, “ Because it’s ______that worries me.”
6. Give an example from this chapter of the saying “you can’t always judge a book by its cover” (p. 136) Explain.
Chapter 22
1. According to Kevin, “______is just an invention of the mind.”
2. Kevin’s birthday is coming. How old will he be?
3. Who is turning 1?
4. What is Kevin going to get for his birthday?
5. What does Kevin have at the end of this chapter?
6. Explain what the saying in #1 means.
Chapter 23
1. What helps Kevin “facilitate breathing?
2. When asked when he is coming home what does Kevin say?
3. What is different about the pages in the book Kevin gives Max?
4. What does Kevin want Max to fill the pages with?
5. Where does Kevin put the book?
6. Why does Kevin get upset when Max says that he is the one with no brain?
Chapter 24
1. Where does Max run to in the morning while Grim is still asleep?
2. What are all some of the nurses doing?
3. Why are they crying?
4. Who is Kevin acting like again?
5. What did Dr. Spivak say that you couldn’t do to Kevin?
6. How old was Kevin when he looked up his condition in the medical dictionary?
7. Dr Spivak says, “ I don’t think it was a lie “ when talking about Kevin thinking about getting a robot body. Explain why she feels this way.
Chapter 25
1. Max hid in the down under for days. What did he miss?
2. What did Max feel like?
3. Who came up to Max and said that it was “a shame what happened?”
3. Where did Gwen end up at the end of the novel?
4. Loretta tells Max “______is a drag, kid”
5. Max thinks, “you haven’t got a brain, and that’s the truth, the whole truth, the ______truth is how Freak would say it.”
6. Why does Gram say that Max should feel lucky? Explain.