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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. What percentage of Elwood's college fund was used to hire a lawyer to help him get sent to Nickel?
(a) 30.
(b) 50.
(c) 100.
(d) 80.

2. Whose name did Elwood and his group at Nickel refuse to utter as they thought about which staff member to poison?
(a) Duggin.
(b) Earl.
(c) Harper.
(d) Superintendent Spencer.

3. With what punishment did Superintendent Spencer threaten Griff if he refused to lose the boxing match on purpose?
(a) Griff would be bumped back down to Grub level.
(b) Griff would be taken to the White House.
(c) Griff would be taken out back.
(d) Griff's bed would be relocated to the schoolhouse basement.

4. Once Griff was declared the winner of the boxing match, toward whom did he frantically shout his apologies?
(a) Director Hardee.
(b) Big Chet.
(c) Superintendent Spencer.
(d) Freddie Rich.

5. Elwood was shocked to find that "most of the Nickel boys couldn't" (59) take what action?
(a) Drive.
(b) Sit down.
(c) Read.
(d) Swim.

Short Answer Questions

1. The forensic examiner noted the fractures in the wrist bones of Griff's skeleton after his remains were unearthed how many years after Griff's murder?

2. The floor of the White House carried the stench of what substance "that had soaked into the concrete" (67)?

3. Elwood's courage faltered when he was how far away from the state inspectors with his whistle-blowing letter in hand?

4. Blakely told Elwood that the younger boys at Nickel were called by what name for an inexplicable reason?

5. Turner told Elwood that if he were to run away from Nickel, he would head in what direction "because they ain't expecting it" (122)?

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