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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 14-16 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The winter when Harriet missed a visit due to illness was a time during which Elwood, Turner, Desmond and Jaimie played what game together most afternoons?
(a) Pinochle.
(b) Monopoly.
(c) Life.
(d) Yahtzee.

2. Neither Chickie Pete nor Elwood said whose name aloud during their foray into their pasts at Nickel?
(a) Freddie Rich.
(b) Earl.
(c) Blakely.
(d) Superintendent Spencer.

3. What two adjectives did adult Elwood use in Chapter 13 to describe crowds at the New York City marathon?
(a) Crazy and fun.
(b) Smelly and golden.
(c) Oddball and lovely.
(d) Atrocious and adorable.

4. As Elwood and Turner were making their escape toward Tallahassee, they turned around to see which vehicle associated with Nickel following them?
(a) A brown Chevy.
(b) A Packard.
(c) A Studebaker.
(d) The Community Service van.

5. What aspect of Nickel's abuse was NOT named in Elwood's letter to the state inspectors?
(a) The White House.
(b) Black Beauty.
(c) Lovers' Lane.
(d) Griff's disappearance after the boxing championship.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way did Superintendent Spencer and another staff member abuse Elwood during their visit to the dark room in which Elwood was locked?

2. In what part of Elwood's body did he receive a punch from Black Mike at the scene of Elwood's intervention in the middle of a fight?

3. The medical examiner linked the Nickel boy's heart failure that happened when he was "locked in a sweatbox" (144) with what cause of death?

4. 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?

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?

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