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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) Sophomore.
(b) Senior.
(c) Junior.
(d) Freshman.

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

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

4. 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?
(a) Unity.
(b) Haunting.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Past.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What subject did Mr. Hill teach at Lincoln High School when he talked to Elwood about taking college classes during Elwood's senior year?

4. In what part of Elwood's body did he receive a punch from Black Mike at the scene of Elwood's intervention in the middle of a fight?

5. 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?

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