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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 11-13.

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

2. In what Florida city did Elwood live with his grandmother Harriet?
(a) Miami.
(b) Pensacola.
(c) Broward.
(d) Tallahassee.

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

4. How many of Elwood's long-time acquaintances beat him up and broke the chain on his bike in retaliation for his interruption of their theft spree?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

5. In what year did Elwood receive "the best gift of his life" (11) for Christmas?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1969.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created a written record of every date, establishment name, and individual name associated with the Community Service activities supervised by Harper?

2. As Clayton Smith rode with the man who had given him a ride, he imagined a posse looking for him with which character "at the head" (150)?

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. By what name did the Nickel Boys call the Nickel Academy's "official cemetery" (3)?

5. Chapter 12 states that "there were" how many "ways out of Nickel" (144)?

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