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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many boys in total did the Nickel staff get out of their beds the night they punished Elwood and some others for fighting?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

2. How many days in total had Elwood attended classes at Melvin Griggs Technical before he was unjustly accused of stealing a car?
(a) 0.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

3. For how many years had the Nickel Academy been closed when the college students located the secret cemetery on its grounds?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 12 years.
(c) 4 months.
(d) 24 years.

4. Which character was NOT a part of the group of the three most fearsome boys at Nickel?
(a) Desmond.
(b) Griff.
(c) Black Mike.
(d) Lonnie.

5. 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) Haunting.
(b) Past.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Unity.

6. What parts of the Nickel Boys' bodies were whipped with the strap referred to as "Black Beauty" (68)?
(a) Their stomachs.
(b) Their backs.
(c) Their legs.
(d) Their chests.

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

8. When Harriet found out about Elwood's participation in a protest, in what way did she punish him?
(a) She took away his college savings.
(b) She took away his record player.
(c) She made him do yard work.
(d) She beat him with a belt.

9. During what period of Elwood's life did he play a game wherein he tried to guess how may "Negro patrons" (18) were seated in the Richmond Hotel's dining room?
(a) 9 to 12.
(b) 6 to 9.
(c) 13 to 15.
(d) 9 to 14.

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

11. Which student was often moved back and forth between the white campus and black campus of Nickel during Elwood's incarceration?
(a) Desmond.
(b) Griff.
(c) Turner.
(d) Jaime.

12. In what kind of a shop was 13-year-old Elwood hired to work for Mr. Marconi?
(a) A water sports shop.
(b) A shoe shop.
(c) A tobacco shop.
(d) A book shop.

13. How many feet long was the leather strap called Black Beauty" (67)?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

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

15. Elwood was shocked to find that "most of the Nickel boys couldn't" (59) take what action?
(a) Swim.
(b) Drive.
(c) Sit down.
(d) Read.

Short Answer 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?

2. Which character was Elwood trying to protect when he got in trouble for fighting?

3. The entirety of the Nickel property numbered how many acres in total?

4. Boys punished within the White House were ordered to lie down on a blood-stained mattress and to hold onto what object?

5. What profanity-laden items were passed on to the black students at Lincoln High School whenever the students at the white high school received new ones?

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