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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Elwood was shocked to find that "most of the Nickel boys couldn't" (59) take what action?
(a) Sit down.
(b) Read.
(c) Swim.
(d) Drive.

2. While the black inmates of Nickel called the building used for whippings "the White House," who called the building "the Ice Cream Factory" (66)?
(a) The cooks of Nickel.
(b) The housemen of Nickel.
(c) The white inmates of Nickel.
(d) Spencer.

3. When Harriet worried about the dangers involved in fighting for civil rights, she always returned to her belief in what as "a fundamental virtue" (33)?
(a) Respect.
(b) Hard work.
(c) Education.
(d) Family bonds.

4. Once Elwood started to work for Mr. Marconi, Harriet put half of his wages toward household expenses and saved the other half for what expense?
(a) College.
(b) Evelyn's rehabilitation.
(c) A car.
(d) A tour of Europe.

5. Who presented Elwood with a recording called "Martin Luther King at Zion Hill" (11)?
(a) Evelyn.
(b) Harriet.
(c) Mr. Hill.
(d) Mr. Marconi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Elwood's answer when he was later asked "how many licks he got" (68) at the White House?

2. Turner told Elwood upon their first meeting that he hailed from what city?

3. In addition to Spencer, how many other men came to fetch Elwood and other boys on the night of Elwood's first trip to the White House?

4. How old was Elwood when both of his parents "took off" (27) and left him in the care of his grandmother Harriet?

5. The first line of the Prologue of The Nickel Boys states that "Even in death, the boys were" (3) what?

(see the answer key)

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