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Freak the Mighty – Chapters 6-10 Study Questions

Chapter 6 – “Close Encounters of the Turd Kind”

1.  What does Max think of Dads on holidays? Why?

2.  Describe Tony D.’s reputation according to Max.

3.  How do we know that Freak is not at first afraid of Tony D.? Why is he afraid later?

4.  What is the allusion made with the title of this chapter?

5.  Why does Max put Freak on his shoulders?

6.  What does Freak say that impresses Max during the fireworks?

Chapter 7 – “Walking High Above the World”

7.  How does Freak direct Max when they’re trying to get away from the gang?

8.  What is Freak’s escape plan? Does it work?

9.  Are Freak and Max truly in danger? How do you know?

10.  When the police talk with Max, what new information do we learn about his father?

11.  How does Freak help Max “save face” about his father? (What does Freak say their name is?)

Chapter 8 – “Dinosaur Brain”

12.  How does everyone interpret what happened at the pond?

13.  How does Max describe what happened at the pond?

14.  Describe three ways Grim shows Max that he is proud of him?

15.  What does Max usually do in the summer?

16.  Who is “an albino walrus in sunglasses”?

17.  What does Freak say every morning to wake Max up? What does he mean?

18.  What does Freak say about dragons and archetypes? Define archetype as it is defined in Freak’s dictionary.

19.  Who is Freak comparing to dinosaurs? Why?

Chapter 9 – “Life is Dangerous”

20.  How does Freak describe his Boy Scout Compass?

21.  While going through a ritzy neighborhood, Freak says, “That’s the Castle of Avarice.” What does that mean? What are “bloated moats”?

22.  What is “tinted sucrose and bubbles of air”?

23.  What does Freak tell Max the hospital research lab is? What will Freak eventually become, according to what he tells Max?

24.  Does Max believe Freak? Why? Do you believe Freak? Why or Why not?

25.  What does Freak say about pain and thinking?

26.  Freak says “life is dangerous” as his reason to go forward with the bionics experiment? What does he mean?

Chapter 10 – “Rats or Worse”

27.  Max is growing, while Freak is not. What is making Max even bigger? Why isn’t Freak growing?

28.  What is the quest Freak takes Max on in this chapter?

29.  What does “pledge your fealty mean”? (Use Freak’s dictionary in the back of the book)

30.  What is the treasure?

31.  Who is Loretta Lee? What King Arthur allusion does Freak make about her?