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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 14-16 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What profanity-laden items were passed on to the black students at Lincoln High School whenever the students at the white high school received new ones?
(a) Sports equipment.
(b) Textbooks.
(c) Desks.
(d) Uniforms.

2. For how many years had Millie and Turner known one another before he told her about some of the horrors that occurred at Nickel?
(a) 8.
(b) 23.
(c) 19.
(d) 4.

3. 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.

4. Turner told Elwood that if he were to run away from Nickel, he would head in what direction "because they ain't expecting it" (122)?
(a) North.
(b) South.
(c) East.
(d) West.

5. The forensic examiner noted the fractures in the wrist bones of Griff's skeleton after his remains were unearthed how many years after Griff's murder?
(a) 40.
(b) 60.
(c) 50.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11, Denise and Elwood watched which movie together that starred Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier?

2. Elwood was told that "classroom instruction" (51) took place how often at Nickel?

3. Phil the houseman told Elwood and the other boys at the scene of the fight that which character would soon hear of the incident?

4. In what suburb of a large Florida town did Elwood live with his grandmother Harriet?

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

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