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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. How many afternoons did Elwood spend at the Richmond Hotel after the trick was played on him with the use of encyclopedias?
(a) 9.
(b) 1.
(c) 30.
(d) 3.

2. In what month did Mr. Hill visit Elwood in order to tell him about the college program for high school students?
(a) June.
(b) August.
(c) July.
(d) September.

3. By what name did the Nickel Boys call the Nickel Academy's "official cemetery" (3)?
(a) Fury Hill.
(b) Tartin Hill.
(c) Dime Hill.
(d) Boot Hill.

4. On the last day of school, Mr. Hill gave Elwood a book by which black writer?
(a) Zora Neale Hurston.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Lucille Clifton.
(d) James Baldwin.

5. In what year did a group of Nickel's young inmates die in a dormitory fire?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1921.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harriet found out about Elwood's participation in a protest, in what way did she punish him?

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

3. Former Nickel Boys are said in the Prologue to have organized support groups in "recent years" (5) in order to reassemble their memories into "confirmation of a shared" (5) what?

4. Once Elwood started to work for Mr. Marconi, Harriet put half of his wages toward household expenses and saved the other half for what expense?

5. The end of the Prologue introduces Elwood the Nickel Boy in what way?

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