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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 second.
(c) The fourth.
(d) The twelfth.

5. What was NOT listed in Chapter 12 as a way to get "out of Nickel" (144)?
(a) Escape.
(b) Medical leave.
(c) Death.
(d) Time served.

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

7. Chickie Pete suffered from an addiction to what substance?
(a) Methamphetamine.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Pain medication.
(d) Alcohol.

8. Harper's first words to Elwood were that Turner had promised that Elwood knew how to take what action?
(a) How to keep his mouth shut.
(b) Lay bricks.
(c) Smile through the pain.
(d) Follow directions.

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

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

11. In what kind of location in Tallahassee had Jaime liked to hang out with his friends before his stint at Nickel?
(a) A train yard.
(b) Under a river bridge.
(c) On the rooftop of City Hall.
(d) A garbage dump.

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

13. What percentage of Elwood's college fund was used to hire a lawyer to help him get sent to Nickel?
(a) 100.
(b) 30.
(c) 80.
(d) 50.

14. 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) Harper.
(c) Earl.
(d) Duggin.

15. 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) Heat stroke.
(d) Suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 12 states that in what year, a young inmate at Nickel "died of heart failure while locked in a sweatbox" (144)?

2. Turner told Elwood that he would acquire clothing from what source if he were to ever escape from Nickel?

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

4. The narrator states that the annual boxing championship was the black Nickel boys' "sole acquaintance" with what "at Nickel" (98)?

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

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