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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

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) 50.
(b) 30.
(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) Superintendent Spencer.
(b) Duggin.
(c) Earl.
(d) Harper.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What two adjectives did adult Elwood use in Chapter 13 to describe crowds at the New York City marathon?

2. In what part of Elwood's body did he experience severe twinges of pain once he reached adulthood?

3. What name did Elwood decide to bestow upon the moving company he had personally founded?

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. In what building at Nickel was the basement termed "Lovers' Lane" located?

Short Essay Questions

1. What "fifth way out of Nickel" (153) did Elwood devise in Chapter 12?

2. At what conclusion did Elwood finally arrive when he contemplated the reason for his vicious beating in the White House?

3. What happened to the money Elwood had saved up for college?

4. What did adult Elwood do with the napkin associated with Chickie Pete and why?

5. Describe the two different ways of "serving time" (144) outlined by the narrator in Chapter 12.

6. For what reason did Elwood become angry at Chickie Pete during their reunion?

7. What happened at the first four stops Harper made during Elwood's first day on the Community Service team with Turner?

8. The narrator begins Chapter 12 by stating that "There were four ways out of Nickel" (144). What were they?

9. What bad news did Harriet deliver to her grandson Elwood in Chapter 12 when she came for a visit after missing one due to illness?

10. What happened on Christmas Day that caused the Nickel boys to feel "like boys from nice houses in nice neighborhoods" (116)?

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