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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. Turner got jealous sometimes when Elwood's grandmother Harriet brought Elwood which items during her visits?
(a) Letters.
(b) Puzzles.
(c) Books.
(d) Snacks.

2. In what year did the annual boxing championship fought between a black Nickel boy and a white Nickel boy begin?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1943.

3. Which character was Elwood trying to protect when he got in trouble for fighting?
(a) Gil.
(b) Desmond.
(c) Turner.
(d) Cory.

4. During what period of Elwood's life did he play a game wherein he tried to guess how may "Negro patrons" (18) were seated in the Richmond Hotel's dining room?
(a) 13 to 15.
(b) 9 to 14.
(c) 9 to 12.
(d) 6 to 9.

5. The narrator states that the annual boxing championship was the black Nickel boys' "sole acquaintance" with what "at Nickel" (98)?
(a) Justice.
(b) White Nickel boys.
(c) Victory.
(d) Glee.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many boxing rounds had Griff completed when he thought he had completed a different number?

2. Who revealed that he had been punched in the stomach by a particular supervisor for the transgression of talking to a white Nickel boy?

3. What was the name of Elwood's house father at Nickel?

4. In what month did Elwood arrive at Nickel?

5. Phil the houseman told Elwood and the other boys at the scene of the fight that which character would soon hear of the incident?

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