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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 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) Education.
(b) Respect.
(c) Hard work.
(d) Family bonds.

2. 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?
(a) Oaks.
(b) Cedars.
(c) Maples.
(d) Madronas.

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 hair products.
(b) Novels by black writers.
(c) Black newspapers.
(d) Artwork by black visual artists.

4. When Harriet found out about Elwood's participation in a protest, in what way did she punish him?
(a) She beat him with a belt.
(b) She took away his record player.
(c) She took away his college savings.
(d) She made him do yard work.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Mr. Hill started teaching history at Lincoln High School when Elwood was a student in which year of high school?

4. The national press picked up the story about the secret cemetery at Nickel Academy after a newspaper from what city published a story about it first?

5. Jody was a student from what university when she discovered the "secret graveyard" (3) on one part of the Nickel Academy's property?

(see the answer key)

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