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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which of Harper's relatives had worked at Nickel for many years?
(a) His father.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His brother.

4. What piece of prison slang is said to have infiltrated the environment of Nickel as well?
(a) Bum beef.
(b) Brake fluid.
(c) All day.
(d) Free world.

5. What kind of strike was happening at the time Elwood moved to New York City?
(a) A petroleum workers' strike.
(b) A writers' strike.
(c) A teachers' strike.
(d) A garbage workers' strike.

6. When Elwood started his own moving company, he bought a 1967 van of what make?
(a) Chevy.
(b) Toyota.
(c) Datsun.
(d) Ford.

7. Harper told Elwood that the state had recently "cracked down" (89) on Nickel's selling-off of what materials meant for the white students?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Landscaping tools.
(c) School supplies.
(d) Foodstuffs.

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

9. Around what issue did the beliefs of Elwood and Denise not mesh, as described in Chapter 11?
(a) Religion.
(b) Politics.
(c) Desire for children.
(d) The efficacy of psychiatric medications.

10. Turner told Elwood that any boy taken "out back" (103) at Nickel would end up in what state?
(a) Suicidal.
(b) Dead.
(c) Scarred for life.
(d) Homicidal.

11. How many boxing rounds had Griff completed when he thought he had completed a different number?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

12. In what month did Elwood first move to New York City?
(a) July.
(b) February.
(c) April.
(d) November.

13. What kind of objects made up the "set of Chipwick's British Classics" (84) Elwood found in the schoolhouse basement?
(a) Books.
(b) Records.
(c) Coins.
(d) Playing cards.

14. What object was NOT associated with Turner's explanation to Elwood of what "out back" means at Nickel?
(a) Two oak trees.
(b) A hatchet.
(c) Iron rings.
(d) A horse whip.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Nickel boys did the dormitory fire of 1921 kill in total?

2. Prior to having his escape plan foiled, Clinton Smith had been planning to join which member of his family as soon as possible?

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. What did Elwood do with Chickie Pete's red napkin at the end of Chapter 13?

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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