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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. Who warned Elwood not to move while he was being punished for his perceived involvement in fighting?
(a) Desmond.
(b) Turner.
(c) Griff.
(d) Cory.

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 housemen of Nickel.
(b) The white inmates of Nickel.
(c) The cooks of Nickel.
(d) Spencer.

3. Boys punished within the White House were ordered to lie down on a blood-stained mattress and to hold onto what object?
(a) A timer.
(b) A chain.
(c) A rope.
(d) A rail.

4. In what year did a group of Nickel's young inmates die in a dormitory fire?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1998.

5. How much of the Florida government's publishing was done on Nickel property at the time of Elwood's arrival?
(a) Half of it.
(b) All of it.
(c) One-quarter of it.
(d) The majority of it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within what room at Nickel did Elwood intervene in a fight, earning him a trip to the White House?

2. For how many years had Blakely worked at Nickel prior to Elwood's arrival?

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

4. By what name did the Nickel Boys call the Nickel Academy's "official cemetery" (3)?

5. Mr. Hill started teaching history at Lincoln High School when Elwood was a student in which year of high school?

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