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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters 8-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harper told Elwood that the state had recently "cracked down" (89) on Nickel's selling-off of what materials meant for the white students?
(a) Foodstuffs.
(b) Landscaping tools.
(c) School supplies.
(d) Clothes.

2. How old was Harper at the time of Elwood's incarceration at Nickel?
(a) 36.
(b) 42.
(c) 24.
(d) 20.

3. What parts of the Nickel Boys' bodies were whipped with the strap referred to as "Black Beauty" (68)?
(a) Their backs.
(b) Their stomachs.
(c) Their chests.
(d) Their legs.

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) West.
(b) South.
(c) North.
(d) East.

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) 25.
(b) 50.
(c) 60.
(d) 40.

Short Answer Questions

1. Former Nickel Boys are said in the Prologue to have organized support groups in "recent years" (5) in order to reassemble their memories into "confirmation of a shared" (5) what?

2. When Elwood joined the A and M students in a protest during his junior year, they were all fighting to integrate what type of establishments?

3. Which members of the Richmond Hotel staff played a trick on 12-year-old Elwood using a set of encyclopedias?

4. Who warned Elwood not to move while he was being punished for his perceived involvement in fighting?

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

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