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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how many weeks had Denise possessed keys to Elwood's New York City apartment by the start of Chapter 11?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

2. On what night of the week did a particular Nickel staff member like to inflict sexual abuse on Clinton Smith?
(a) Saturdays.
(b) Thursdays.
(c) Sundays.
(d) Tuesdays.

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

4. To what word did Turner keep returning when he thought about Elwood's personality?
(a) Sturdy.
(b) Patient.
(c) Present.
(d) Smart.

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

6. 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's bed would be relocated to the schoolhouse basement.
(c) Griff would be taken out back.
(d) Griff would be taken to the White House.

7. In what year did the annual boxing championship fought between a black Nickel boy and a white Nickel boy begin?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1943.

8. 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 pool house.
(b) The gymnasium doors.
(c) The White House.
(d) The school dump.

9. 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?
(a) Natural causes.
(b) Suffocation.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Heat stroke.

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

11. On what part of Nickel's campus were the white inmates housed?
(a) North.
(b) East.
(c) South.
(d) West.

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

13. As Clayton Smith rode with the man who had given him a ride, he imagined a posse looking for him with which character "at the head" (150)?
(a) Earl.
(b) Blakely.
(c) Superintendent Spencer.
(d) Freddie Rich.

14. Turner got jealous sometimes when Elwood's grandmother Harriet brought Elwood which items during her visits?
(a) Books.
(b) Snacks.
(c) Letters.
(d) Puzzles.

15. In what building at Nickel was the basement termed "Lovers' Lane" located?
(a) The White House.
(b) The black schoolhouse.
(c) The white schoolhouse.
(d) The dining hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. A typical sentence at Nickel is said to have fallen "between six months and" (144) what length of time?

2. How old was Harper at the time of Elwood's incarceration at Nickel?

3. Neither Chickie Pete nor Elwood said whose name aloud during their foray into their pasts at Nickel?

4. What criminal acts occurred in the location at Nickel known as "Lovers' Lane" (121)?

5. How many boxing rounds had Griff completed when he thought he had completed a different number?

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