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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. 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) Textbooks.
(b) Desks.
(c) Sports equipment.
(d) Uniforms.

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

3. By what name did the Nickel Boys call the Nickel Academy's "official cemetery" (3)?
(a) Tartin Hill.
(b) Boot Hill.
(c) Fury Hill.
(d) Dime Hill.

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

5. For how many years had the Nickel Academy been closed when the college students located the secret cemetery on its grounds?
(a) 12 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 4 months.
(d) 24 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Elwood receive "the best gift of his life" (11) for Christmas?

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. In what year did a group of Nickel's young inmates die in a dormitory fire?

4. When Harriet found out about Elwood's participation in a protest, in what way did she punish him?

5. Elwood became transfixed by the photo essays published in which magazine sold in Mr. Marconi's shop?

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