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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. 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?
(a) Desks.
(b) Textbooks.
(c) Uniforms.
(d) Sports equipment.

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

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

4. Who presented Elwood with a recording called "Martin Luther King at Zion Hill" (11)?
(a) Mr. Hill.
(b) Evelyn.
(c) Harriet.
(d) Mr. Marconi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which members of the Richmond Hotel staff played a trick on 12-year-old Elwood using a set of encyclopedias?

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

3. How many generations of Elwood's family had worked at the Richmond Hotel over the years?

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

5. In what suburb of a large Florida town did Elwood live with his grandmother Harriet?

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