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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters 8-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before the college students found the "secret graveyard" (3) how many bodies in total had they counted within the Nickel Academy's official cemetery?
(a) 31.
(b) 27.
(c) 15.
(d) 43.

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

3. What piece of prison slang is said to have infiltrated the environment of Nickel as well?
(a) Bum beef.
(b) Brake fluid.
(c) Free world.
(d) All day.

4. On what part of Nickel's campus were the white inmates housed?
(a) East.
(b) South.
(c) North.
(d) West.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. From what material were the buildings on Nickel's property composed?

4. In what year did the annual boxing championship fought between a black Nickel boy and a white Nickel boy begin?

5. Which student was often moved back and forth between the white campus and black campus of Nickel during Elwood's incarceration?

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