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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was Elwood's answer when he was later asked "how many licks he got" (68) at the White House?
(a) 20.
(b) 50.
(c) None.
(d) He did not know.

4. The end of the Prologue introduces Elwood the Nickel Boy in what way?
(a) He was called Elwood Curtis.
(b) He liked to be called Elwood Curtis.
(c) His name was Elwood Curtis.
(d) He went by the name of Elwood Curtis.

5. How many desks had been squeezed into Elwood and Desmond's homeroom at Nickel?
(a) 40.
(b) 30.
(c) 50.
(d) 100.

Short Answer Questions

1. Boys punished within the White House were ordered to lie down on a blood-stained mattress and to hold onto what object?

2. The floor of the White House carried the stench of what substance "that had soaked into the concrete" (67)?

3. On what "side" of the Nickel Academy's property was the "secret graveyard" (3) discovered?

4. 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?

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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