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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue and Part One: Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what "side" of the Nickel Academy's property was the "secret graveyard" (3) discovered?
(a) West.
(b) East.
(c) South.
(d) North.

2. The national press picked up the story about the secret cemetery at Nickel Academy after a newspaper from what city published a story about it first?
(a) Miami.
(b) Orlando.
(c) Tallahassee.
(d) Boca Raton.

3. On the last day of school, Mr. Hill gave Elwood a book by which black writer?
(a) Zora Neale Hurston.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Lucille Clifton.
(d) Langston Hughes.

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

5. 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) 43.
(c) 15.
(d) 31.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month did Mr. Hill visit Elwood in order to tell him about the college program for high school students?

2. What subject did Mr. Hill teach at Lincoln High School when he talked to Elwood about taking college classes during Elwood's senior year?

3. The end of the Prologue introduces Elwood the Nickel Boy in what way?

4. The first line of the Prologue of The Nickel Boys states that "Even in death, the boys were" (3) what?

5. 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)?

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