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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 43.
(b) 31.
(c) 15.
(d) 27.

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) Boca Raton.
(b) Tallahassee.
(c) Miami.
(d) Orlando.

3. In what year did a group of Nickel's young inmates die in a dormitory fire?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1998.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1921.

4. When Elwood first met the boys who slept on either side of them, he learned that their names were what?
(a) Turner and Blakely.
(b) Pat and Desmond.
(c) Harper and Desmond.
(d) Spencer and Thomas.

5. 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) Spencer.
(b) The cooks of Nickel.
(c) The housemen of Nickel.
(d) The white inmates of Nickel.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which student was often moved back and forth between the white campus and black campus of Nickel during Elwood's incarceration?

3. The floor of the White House carried the stench of what substance "that had soaked into the concrete" (67)?

4. In what kind of a shop was 13-year-old Elwood hired to work for Mr. Marconi?

5. In addition to Spencer, how many other men came to fetch Elwood and other boys on the night of Elwood's first trip to the White House?

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