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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of Turner's escape fantasy did he consider especially important to share with Elwood?
(a) Misleading the search dogs.
(b) Having enough money.
(c) Going alone.
(d) Knowing how to swim.

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

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

4. In what year did Elwood move to New York City?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1979.

5. What was the name of the Community Service supervisor under whom Elwood eventually worked after Turner's recommendation?
(a) Lonnie.
(b) Blakely.
(c) Harper.
(d) Desmond.

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 too small.
(b) It was dirty.
(c) It was too big.
(d) It was tattered.

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

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

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

10. What criminal acts occurred in the location at Nickel known as "Lovers' Lane" (121)?
(a) Theft.
(b) Murder.
(c) Extortion.
(d) Child rape.

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

12. Prior to having his escape plan foiled, Clinton Smith had been planning to join which member of his family as soon as possible?
(a) His sister.
(b) His brother.
(c) His mother.
(d) His uncle.

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

14. What crime did Elwood privately remember Chickie Pete having committed regularly at Nickel after experiencing similar abuse himself?
(a) Emotional abuse.
(b) Neglect.
(c) Physical abuse.
(d) Sexual abuse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Turner realized at the end of Chapter 10 that the Christmas light display at Nickel reminded him of the atmosphere of what location?

3. How many months did it take for Elwood to realize he had based the name of his company on an aspect of his former life at Nickel?

4. The narrator states that for the Nickel boys, "to forbid the thought of escape mean to" take what action against "one's humanity" (145)?

5. What piece of prison slang is said to have infiltrated the environment of Nickel as well?

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