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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 11-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character overheard Superintendent Spencer order Griff to throw the boxing match?
(a) Lonnie.
(b) Elwood.
(c) Desmond.
(d) Turner.

2. In what month did Mr. Hill visit Elwood in order to tell him about the college program for high school students?
(a) July.
(b) June.
(c) August.
(d) September.

3. Which student was often moved back and forth between the white campus and black campus of Nickel during Elwood's incarceration?
(a) Turner.
(b) Griff.
(c) Desmond.
(d) Jaime.

4. Upon Elwood's arrival, Nickel housed "over" (49) how many inmates?
(a) 1,300.
(b) 300.
(c) 800.
(d) 600.

5. How many months did it take for Elwood to realize he had based the name of his company on an aspect of his former life at Nickel?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Elwood joined the A and M students in a protest during his junior year, they were all fighting to integrate what type of establishments?

2. How many minutes did each Nickel Boy get inside the communal showers each day?

3. In what suburb of a large Florida town did Elwood live with his grandmother Harriet?

4. On the last day of school, Mr. Hill gave Elwood a book by which black writer?

5. To what word did Turner keep returning when he thought about Elwood's personality?

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