Characters
Figurative Language
Style
Events
100
Who keeps getting "chucked" from the white side to the black side back and forth?
Jaimie
100
"More than once Elwood caught himself swinging the scythe with too much violence, like he was attacking the grass with a leather strap."
Simile; Elwood uses this particular comparison to express his anger as he is redirecting his pain from Spencer to the grass.
100
When Elwood was on his community service trip what was his tone while describing what was around him.
Joyful, appreciative, excited, relieved.
100
What sent Turner back to Nickel the second time?
Throwing a cinder block through the windshield of a customer at the bowling ally he worked at.
200
Who was raised by the secretary in the administration building and drives Elwood and Turner around for community service?
Harper
200
"... killed afternoons in the Cleveland rec room playing checkers and Ping-Pong ..."
Idiom; passing time ***
200
"Watch and think and plan. Let the world be a mob--Elwood will walk through it. They might curse and spit and strike him, but he'd make it through to the other side. Bloodied and tired, but he'd make it through."
Descriptive Imagery
200
Why did Elwood think he got punished harshly?
He initially thinks that he had a hard beating due to him "acting above" his situation when he requested harder classes, which caught Spencer's attention but he later decided that there was no system guiding Nickel's brutality
300
Who owns the home that Elwood painted and is a fire chief for the city?
Mr. Davis
300
"Also, Archimedes, one of his first encyclopedia finds."
Allusion; Archimedes was a Greek mathematician who was killed by a Roman soldier. A Roman soldier commanded him to come and meet Marcellus, but he declined, saying that he had to finish working on the problem. This enraged the soldier, who killed Archimedes with his sword. Whitehead alludes to this as he is trying to show the audience how indiscriminate Nickel Academy is and that "acting above your station: comes with punishments.
300
The repeated use of the quotation "This or this" from his visits to the eye doctor when describing the outside world achieved what for Elwood's character?
Diction; A new view of the world around him, less critical of the harsh realities or a sense of clarity that he had not previously had.
300
In Elwood's description of Mrs. Davis he states, "She wore a yellow dress with a houndstooth pattern and dark sunglasses like...", What famous person does he compare her to?
Jackie Kennedy