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

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

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

4. Which members of the Richmond Hotel staff played a trick on 12-year-old Elwood using a set of encyclopedias?
(a) The bellboys.
(b) The kitchen staff.
(c) The concierges.
(d) The waiters.

5. 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?
(a) A car.
(b) Evelyn's rehabilitation.
(c) A tour of Europe.
(d) College.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many days in total had Elwood attended classes at Melvin Griggs Technical before he was unjustly accused of stealing a car?

3. 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)?

4. 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?

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

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