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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. 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?
(a) Movie theaters.
(b) Churches.
(c) Libraries.
(d) Schools.

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

3. Turner waited until which staff member was asleep and the other on-duty staff members were at a poker game in order to release Elwood from the dark room?
(a) Director Hardee.
(b) Superintendent Spencer.
(c) Blakely.
(d) Freddie Rich.

4. What was the name of the Community Service supervisor under whom Elwood eventually worked after Turner's recommendation?
(a) Blakely.
(b) Lonnie.
(c) Harper.
(d) Desmond.

5. On what "side" of the Nickel Academy's property was the "secret graveyard" (3) discovered?
(a) West.
(b) East.
(c) North.
(d) South.

Short Answer Questions

1. What machine was used to mask the screams of the boys as they were punished within the White House?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 8, Elwood "returned to the yard crew" (64) after a several-day stay in what location?

3. What rule of Turner's own making did he break while helping Elwood to escape from Nickel?

4. Clinton Smith accepted a ride from a man driving what kind of vehicle?

5. Neither Chickie Pete nor Elwood said whose name aloud during their foray into their pasts at Nickel?

(see the answer key)

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