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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. Jody was a student from what university when she discovered the "secret graveyard" (3) on one part of the Nickel Academy's property?
(a) The University of South Florida.
(b) Alabama State University.
(c) The University of Miami.
(d) Florida State University.
2. For how many nights was Elwood permitted to sleep in his own home between his sentencing and his departure for Nickel?
(a) 7.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 14.
3. Elwood became transfixed by the photo essays published in which magazine sold in Mr. Marconi's shop?
(a) Time.
(b) Life.
(c) Newsweek.
(d) Ebony.
4. At the time when widespread media coverage focused on the Nickel Academy, how many Nickel Boy reunions had been held?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 18.
(d) 10.
5. Who presented Elwood with a recording called "Martin Luther King at Zion Hill" (11)?
(a) Harriet.
(b) Mr. Hill.
(c) Evelyn.
(d) Mr. Marconi.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many desks had been squeezed into Elwood and Desmond's homeroom at Nickel?
2. How many generations of Elwood's family had worked at the Richmond Hotel over the years?
3. While the black inmates of Nickel called the building used for whippings "the White House," who called the building "the Ice Cream Factory" (66)?
4. The first line of the Prologue of The Nickel Boys states that "Even in death, the boys were" (3) what?
5. When Elwood Curtis saw what kind of trees over the shoulder of the reporter on television, he knew he would have to return to the Nickel Academy?
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