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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. For what moving company did Elwood work before starting his own moving company?
(a) Specialty Moving.
(b) Horizon Moving.
(c) AAA Moving.
(d) Iron Man Moving.

2. At the time when widespread media coverage focused on the Nickel Academy, how many Nickel Boy reunions had been held?
(a) 2.
(b) 18.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

3. When Elwood started his own moving company, he bought a 1967 van of what make?
(a) Datsun.
(b) Toyota.
(c) Ford.
(d) Chevy.

4. What did Elwood do with Chickie Pete's red napkin at the end of Chapter 13?
(a) He put it in his pocket.
(b) He put it in his car's glove compartment.
(c) He lit it on fire.
(d) He ripped it up.

5. The narrator states that Clayton Smith's escape happened in the days when the "boys didn't know that cars heading out to" what location "in the middle of the night meant that the secret graveyard had welcomed a new resident" (152)?
(a) The White House.
(b) The school dump.
(c) The gymnasium doors.
(d) The pool house.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom did Director Hardee learn that Nickel was about to undergo a "surprise" (169) state inspection?

2. On what day of Elwood's incarceration at Nickel does he meet Turner?

3. How many feet long was the leather strap called Black Beauty" (67)?

4. What fear had kept Superintendent Spencer and the other Nickel staff from taking Elwood "out back" (195) on the day they learned of Elwood's letter to the state inspectors?

5. For how many years had the Nickel Academy been closed when the college students located the secret cemetery on its grounds?

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