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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue and Part One: Chapters 1-3.

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

2. In what kind of a shop was 13-year-old Elwood hired to work for Mr. Marconi?
(a) A tobacco shop.
(b) A book shop.
(c) A water sports shop.
(d) A shoe shop.

3. Though Mr. Marconi had already carried black magazines in his shop, Elwood got him to order what other items tailored to the black community's needs?
(a) Black newspapers.
(b) Black hair products.
(c) Novels by black writers.
(d) Artwork by black visual artists.

4. The first line of the Prologue of The Nickel Boys states that "Even in death, the boys were" (3) what?
(a) Together.
(b) Trouble.
(c) Noisy.
(d) Exuberant.

5. What subject did Mr. Hill teach at Lincoln High School when he talked to Elwood about taking college classes during Elwood's senior year?
(a) Music.
(b) English.
(c) Chemistry.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did a group of Nickel's young inmates die in a dormitory fire?

3. How many afternoons did Elwood spend at the Richmond Hotel after the trick was played on him with the use of encyclopedias?

4. What profanity-laden items were passed on to the black students at Lincoln High School whenever the students at the white high school received new ones?

5. 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)?

(see the answer key)

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