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

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

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

3. 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) Harper.
(b) Spencer.
(c) Blakely.
(d) The social worker.

4. When Elwood joined the A and M students in a protest during his junior year, they were all fighting to integrate what type of establishments?
(a) Libraries.
(b) Schools.
(c) Churches.
(d) Movie theaters.

5. How much of the Florida government's publishing was done on Nickel property at the time of Elwood's arrival?
(a) The majority of it.
(b) All of it.
(c) One-quarter of it.
(d) Half of it.

6. Mr. Hill started teaching history at Lincoln High School when Elwood was a student in which year of high school?
(a) Senior.
(b) Freshman.
(c) Junior.
(d) Sophomore.

7. In what month did Elwood arrive at Nickel?
(a) November.
(b) October.
(c) December.
(d) September.

8. 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) 6.
(d) 5.

9. When Elwood Curtis saw what kind of trees over the shoulder of the reporter on television, he knew he would have to return to the Nickel Academy?
(a) Oaks.
(b) Cedars.
(c) Maples.
(d) Madronas.

10. The entirety of the Nickel property numbered how many acres in total?
(a) 300.
(b) 500.
(c) 800.
(d) 1,400.

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

12. When Harriet worried about the dangers involved in fighting for civil rights, she always returned to her belief in what as "a fundamental virtue" (33)?
(a) Respect.
(b) Education.
(c) Family bonds.
(d) Hard work.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what "side" of the Nickel Academy's property was the "secret graveyard" (3) discovered?

2. 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?

3. How old was Elwood when both of his parents "took off" (27) and left him in the care of his grandmother Harriet?

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

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

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