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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. At what time of the morning did the Nickel staff arrive in order to take Elwood and the others to receive their punishment for fighting?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

2. 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) Hard work.
(d) Respect.

3. When Elwood joined the A and M students in a protest during his junior year, they were all fighting to integrate what type of establishments?
(a) Schools.
(b) Libraries.
(c) Movie theaters.
(d) Churches.

4. Blakely told Elwood that the younger boys at Nickel were called by what name for an inexplicable reason?
(a) Janes.
(b) Rents.
(c) Suits.
(d) Chucks.

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

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. Elwood was told that "classroom instruction" (51) took place how often at Nickel?

3. 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?

4. While the black inmates of Nickel called the building used for whippings "the White House," who called the building "the Ice Cream Factory" (66)?

5. What machine was used to mask the screams of the boys as they were punished within the White House?

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