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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name did Elwood decide to bestow upon the moving company he had personally founded?
(a) White House Moving.
(b) Turner Moving.
(c) Black Beauty Moving.
(d) Ace Moving.

2. What did Elwood do with Chickie Pete's red napkin at the end of Chapter 13?
(a) He put it in his pocket.
(b) He lit it on fire.
(c) He ripped it up.
(d) He put it in his car's glove compartment.

3. The narrator states that Clayton Smith's escape happened in the days when the "boys didn't know that cars heading out to" what location "in the middle of the night meant that the secret graveyard had welcomed a new resident" (152)?
(a) The gymnasium doors.
(b) The White House.
(c) The school dump.
(d) The pool house.

4. What kind of relationship did Elwood and Denise have before their relationship turned romantic?
(a) Teacher and student.
(b) Sponsor and addict.
(c) Hairdresser and client.
(d) Parole officer and parolee.

5. 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?
(a) 40.
(b) 50.
(c) 60.
(d) 25.

6. What was distinctive about Chickie Pete's clothing when adult Elwood ran into him after watching the New York City marathon?
(a) It was dirty.
(b) It was tattered.
(c) It was too big.
(d) It was too small.

7. With which relative did Turner live before he ran away from home for the final time?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His older brother.
(d) His mother.

8. Chapter 12 states that in what year, a young inmate at Nickel "died of heart failure while locked in a sweatbox" (144)?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1932.

9. For how many years had the black boys held the Nickel boxing title prior to Griff's participation?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.

10. On what day of Clinton Smith's freedom from Nickel did he decide it was safe enough for him to hitchhike?
(a) The sixth.
(b) The fourth.
(c) The twelfth.
(d) The second.

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

12. At what traditional Nickel event did Jaime successfully poison Earl?
(a) The Christmas pageant.
(b) The Holiday Luncheon.
(c) The Christmas Fair.
(d) The Holly Promenade.

13. Turner told Elwood that only boys with what quality were ever taken "out back" (103)?
(a) Failed escapees.
(b) Black boys.
(c) White boys.
(d) Violent boys.

14. Elwood decided in Chapter 8 that he would get out of Nickel how many months before the judge's sentence was up?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

15. At the beginning of Chapter 8, Elwood "returned to the yard crew" (64) after a several-day stay in what location?
(a) The school hospital.
(b) Out back.
(c) The school house.
(d) The rec room.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what moving company did Elwood work before starting his own moving company?

2. In what year did Elwood move to New York City?

3. On what part of Nickel's campus were the white inmates housed?

4. Harper told Elwood that the state had recently "cracked down" (89) on Nickel's selling-off of what materials meant for the white students?

5. Once Griff was declared the winner of the boxing match, toward whom did he frantically shout his apologies?

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