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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. Before the college students found the "secret graveyard" (3) how many bodies in total had they counted within the Nickel Academy's official cemetery?
(a) 15.
(b) 27.
(c) 43.
(d) 31.

2. At the time when widespread media coverage focused on the Nickel Academy, how many Nickel Boy reunions had been held?
(a) 18.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 2.

3. How old was Elwood when both of his parents "took off" (27) and left him in the care of his grandmother Harriet?
(a) 14.
(b) 12.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

4. Mr. Hill started teaching history at Lincoln High School when Elwood was a student in which year of high school?
(a) Freshman.
(b) Junior.
(c) Sophomore.
(d) Senior.

5. During what period of Elwood's life did he play a game wherein he tried to guess how may "Negro patrons" (18) were seated in the Richmond Hotel's dining room?
(a) 13 to 15.
(b) 9 to 14.
(c) 9 to 12.
(d) 6 to 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In what Florida city did Elwood live with his grandmother Harriet?

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. The first line of the Prologue of The Nickel Boys states that "Even in death, the boys were" (3) what?

5. On the last day of school, Mr. Hill gave Elwood a book by which black writer?

(see the answer key)

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