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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many minutes did each Nickel Boy get inside the communal showers each day?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 2.

2. Once Elwood started to work for Mr. Marconi, Harriet put half of his wages toward household expenses and saved the other half for what expense?
(a) College.
(b) A tour of Europe.
(c) A car.
(d) Evelyn's rehabilitation.

3. When Elwood first met the boys who slept on either side of them, he learned that their names were what?
(a) Spencer and Thomas.
(b) Pat and Desmond.
(c) Harper and Desmond.
(d) Turner and Blakely.

4. 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) 27.
(b) 15.
(c) 43.
(d) 31.

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

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

7. Upon Elwood's arrival, Nickel housed "over" (49) how many inmates?
(a) 600.
(b) 800.
(c) 1,300.
(d) 300.

8. Boys punished within the White House were ordered to lie down on a blood-stained mattress and to hold onto what object?
(a) A chain.
(b) A timer.
(c) A rail.
(d) A rope.

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

10. In what month did Mr. Hill visit Elwood in order to tell him about the college program for high school students?
(a) June.
(b) July.
(c) September.
(d) August.

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

12. The floor of the White House carried the stench of what substance "that had soaked into the concrete" (67)?
(a) Sweat.
(b) Blood.
(c) Pain.
(d) Urine.

13. Phil the houseman told Elwood and the other boys at the scene of the fight that which character would soon hear of the incident?
(a) Spencer.
(b) Blakely.
(c) Harper.
(d) The social worker.

14. Within what room at Nickel did Elwood intervene in a fight, earning him a trip to the White House?
(a) The dormitory room.
(b) The bathroom.
(c) Elwood's homeroom.
(d) The dining hall.

15. What was Elwood's answer when he was later asked "how many licks he got" (68) at the White House?
(a) He did not know.
(b) 50.
(c) 20.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many feet long was the leather strap called Black Beauty" (67)?

2. Blakely told Elwood that the younger boys at Nickel were called by what name for an inexplicable reason?

3. 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?

4. In what Florida city did Elwood live with his grandmother Harriet?

5. How many desks had been squeezed into Elwood and Desmond's homeroom at Nickel?

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