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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. 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 waiters.
(d) The concierges.

2. How many generations of Elwood's family had worked at the Richmond Hotel over the years?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

3. 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?
(a) Tallahassee.
(b) Miami.
(c) Orlando.
(d) Boca Raton.

4. How many of Elwood's long-time acquaintances beat him up and broke the chain on his bike in retaliation for his interruption of their theft spree?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the time when widespread media coverage focused on the Nickel Academy, how many Nickel Boy reunions had been held?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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