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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. What profanity-laden items were passed on to the black students at Lincoln High School whenever the students at the white high school received new ones?
(a) Textbooks.
(b) Sports equipment.
(c) Desks.
(d) Uniforms.

2. How many boxing rounds had Griff completed when he thought he had completed a different number?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

3. Which members of the Richmond Hotel staff played a trick on 12-year-old Elwood using a set of encyclopedias?
(a) The waiters.
(b) The concierges.
(c) The bellboys.
(d) The kitchen staff.

4. How many generations of Elwood's family had worked at the Richmond Hotel over the years?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

5. What term did Elwood borrow from the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. when he pinpointed the problem with the would-be thieves' actions?
(a) Dignity.
(b) Honor.
(c) Respect.
(d) Honesty.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time of the morning did the Nickel staff arrive in order to take Elwood and the others to receive their punishment for fighting?

2. What criminal acts occurred in the location at Nickel known as "Lovers' Lane" (121)?

3. How many days in total had Elwood attended classes at Melvin Griggs Technical before he was unjustly accused of stealing a car?

4. On what part of Nickel's campus were the white inmates housed?

5. Elwood was shocked to find that "most of the Nickel boys couldn't" (59) take what action?

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