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Period: Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

Chapter 22 Study Guide

  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 one?
  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 Remembering is just an invention of the mind means.

Chapter 23 Study Guide

  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 of the book 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 Study Guide

  1. Where does Max run to in the morning while Grim is still asleep?
  2. What are some of the nurses doing?
  3. Why are they crying?
  4. Who is Max 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. DrSpivak 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 Study Guide

  1. Max hides 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’?
  4. Where did Gwen end up at the end of the novel?
  5. Loretta tells Max, “______is a drag, kid.”
  6. Max thinks, “You haven’t got a brain, and that’s the truth, the whole truth, the ______truth is how Freak would say it.”
  7. Why does Gram say that Max should feel lucky? Explain.