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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. From what material were the buildings on Nickel's property composed?
2. What machine was used to mask the screams of the boys as they were punished within the White House?
3. Who presented Elwood with a recording called "Martin Luther King at Zion Hill" (11)?
4. 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?
5. How many generations of Elwood's family had worked at the Richmond Hotel over the years?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way does Whitehead employ foreshadowing about Superintendent Spencer's character?
2. For what purpose does Whitehead allude to The Andy Griffith Show in Chapter 7?
3. What examples does the narrator use to back up the claim that Harriet was rarely able to "make proper goodbyes to her loved ones" (70)?
4. How are the themes of brutality and oppression intertwined within Chapter 6?
5. What was ironic about Harriet's punishment of Elwood upon learning that he had participated in a protest?
6. What does the industrial fan within Chapter 6 symbolize and with what theme does Whitehead connect the fan?
7. Which two momentous events happened on Elwood's second day at Nickel, as announced at the start of Chapter 5?
8. 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?
9. What major discovery is described in the Prologue as having led to widespread media coverage focused on the Nickel Academy?
10. How did Elwood turn the nasty trick played by the Richmond Hotel staff into a boon?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss how and why Whitehead instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of The Nickel Boys.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Whitehead’s messages about guilt and responsibility within The Nickel Boys. Focus especially on events such as Harriet’s untimely death one year after her grandson Elwood’s demise.
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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