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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who presented Elwood with a recording called "Martin Luther King at Zion Hill" (11)?
2. 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?
3. At the time when widespread media coverage focused on the Nickel Academy, how many Nickel Boy reunions had been held?
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?
5. Mr. Hill started teaching history at Lincoln High School when Elwood was a student in which year of high school?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what reason was Elwood unable to get a full night's sleep the day of his arrival at Nickel?
2. For what purpose does Whitehead allude to Life magazine within Chapter 2?
3. How are the themes of brutality and oppression intertwined within Chapter 6?
4. How does Whitehead use personification to depict the way that Harriet tried not to get her hopes up about the progress the black community might make in the wake of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision?
5. What happened to prevent Elwood from attending his first class at Marvin Griggs Technical?
6. What major discovery is described in the Prologue as having led to widespread media coverage focused on the Nickel Academy?
7. Which two momentous events happened on Elwood's second day at Nickel, as announced at the start of Chapter 5?
8. In what way did the grounds of Nickel surprise Elwood upon his arrival and what is this detail's significance?
9. Who was Elwood and what event prompted him to need to return to Nickel?
10. In what way does Whitehead intertwine the motif of dreams with the theme of escape within Chapter 7?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Read a lengthy interview with Colson Whitehead. Write an essay explaining the connection between several of Whitehead’s answers and a major theme presented within the text of The Nickel Boys.
Essay Topic 2
What message does Whitehead send within the pages of The Nickel Boys concerning the link between oppression and brutality?
Essay Topic 3
Sensory details are used frequently by Whitehead in order to create vivid pictures of the reformatory school central to the narrative of The Nickel Boys. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Whitehead’s creation of an effective novel setting.
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