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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 how many years had Blakely worked at Nickel prior to Elwood's arrival?
(a) 11.
(b) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

2. When Harriet worried about the dangers involved in fighting for civil rights, she always returned to her belief in what as "a fundamental virtue" (33)?
(a) Respect.
(b) Family bonds.
(c) Education.
(d) Hard work.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During what period of Elwood's life did he play a game wherein he tried to guess how may "Negro patrons" (18) were seated in the Richmond Hotel's dining room?

3. When Chapter 15 begins, the reader learns that the adult Elwood had taken what step with a woman named Millie?

4. In what capacity did Yvette work for the adult Elwood within his moving company?

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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