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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Uniforms.
(b) Desks.
(c) Sports equipment.
(d) Textbooks.

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

3. 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) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

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

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

6. From what material were the buildings on Nickel's property composed?
(a) Wood.
(b) Metal.
(c) Stone.
(d) Brick.

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

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

9. The end of the Prologue introduces Elwood the Nickel Boy in what way?
(a) He liked to be called Elwood Curtis.
(b) His name was Elwood Curtis.
(c) He went by the name of Elwood Curtis.
(d) He was called Elwood Curtis.

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

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

12. 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) Harper.
(c) Blakely.
(d) The social worker.

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

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

15. 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) Spencer.
(c) The white inmates of Nickel.
(d) The cooks of Nickel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Turner told Elwood upon their first meeting that he hailed from what city?

2. How many days in total had Elwood attended classes at Melvin Griggs Technical before he was unjustly accused of stealing a car?

3. Which character was NOT a part of the group of the three most fearsome boys at Nickel?

4. On the last day of school, Mr. Hill gave Elwood a book by which black writer?

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

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