View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 kitchen staff.
(c) The concierges.
(d) The bellboys.

2. What subject did Mr. Hill teach at Lincoln High School when he talked to Elwood about taking college classes during Elwood's senior year?
(a) Music.
(b) History.
(c) English.
(d) Chemistry.

3. In what year did a group of Nickel's young inmates die in a dormitory fire?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1954.

4. While the black inmates of Nickel called the building used for whippings "the White House," who called the building "the Ice Cream Factory" (66)?
(a) The housemen of Nickel.
(b) The white inmates of Nickel.
(c) Spencer.
(d) The cooks of Nickel.

5. In what year did Elwood receive "the best gift of his life" (11) for Christmas?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1962.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many of Elwood's long-time acquaintances beat him up and broke the chain on his bike in retaliation for his interruption of their theft spree?

3. Before the college students found the "secret graveyard" (3) how many bodies in total had they counted within the Nickel Academy's official cemetery?

4. What machine was used to mask the screams of the boys as they were punished within the White House?

5. Who presented Elwood with a recording called "Martin Luther King at Zion Hill" (11)?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 237 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample