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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters 8-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Boys punished within the White House were ordered to lie down on a blood-stained mattress and to hold onto what object?
(a) A chain.
(b) A rail.
(c) A timer.
(d) A rope.

2. Who warned Elwood not to move while he was being punished for his perceived involvement in fighting?
(a) Turner.
(b) Griff.
(c) Desmond.
(d) Cory.

3. Turner told Elwood upon their first meeting that he hailed from what city?
(a) Dallas.
(b) Houston.
(c) Galveston.
(d) Gainesville.

4. The entirety of the Nickel property numbered how many acres in total?
(a) 500.
(b) 800.
(c) 1,400.
(d) 300.

5. Turner told Elwood that he would acquire clothing from what source if he were to ever escape from Nickel?
(a) Hospitals.
(b) Clotheslines.
(c) Schools.
(d) Laundromats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Turner told Elwood that any boy taken "out back" (103) at Nickel would end up in what state?

2. How old was Harper at the time of Elwood's incarceration at Nickel?

3. What object was NOT associated with Turner's explanation to Elwood of what "out back" means at Nickel?

4. In what Florida city did Elwood live with his grandmother Harriet?

5. When Harriet worried about the dangers involved in fighting for civil rights, she always returned to her belief in what as "a fundamental virtue" (33)?

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