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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. The narrator states that Clayton Smith's escape happened in the days when the "boys didn't know that cars heading out to" what location "in the middle of the night meant that the secret graveyard had welcomed a new resident" (152)?
(a) The school dump.
(b) The White House.
(c) The pool house.
(d) The gymnasium doors.

2. While the black inmates of Nickel called the building used for whippings "the White House," who called the building "the Ice Cream Factory" (66)?
(a) The housemen of Nickel.
(b) The white inmates of Nickel.
(c) The cooks of Nickel.
(d) Spencer.

3. Chapter 12 states that "there were" how many "ways out of Nickel" (144)?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

4. When Elwood started his own moving company, he bought a 1967 van of what make?
(a) Toyota.
(b) Ford.
(c) Chevy.
(d) Datsun.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What parts of the Nickel Boys' bodies were whipped with the strap referred to as "Black Beauty" (68)?

4. What was NOT listed in Chapter 12 as a way to get "out of Nickel" (144)?

5. For what moving company did Elwood work before starting his own moving company?

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