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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 11-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Neither Chickie Pete nor Elwood said whose name aloud during their foray into their pasts at Nickel?
(a) Earl.
(b) Blakely.
(c) Superintendent Spencer.
(d) Freddie Rich.

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

3. In what building at Nickel was the basement termed "Lovers' Lane" located?
(a) The black schoolhouse.
(b) The White House.
(c) The white schoolhouse.
(d) The dining hall.

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

5. How many months did it take for Elwood to realize he had based the name of his company on an aspect of his former life at Nickel?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what moving company did Elwood work before starting his own moving company?

2. Whose name did Elwood and his group at Nickel refuse to utter as they thought about which staff member to poison?

3. In what suburb of a large Florida town did Elwood live with his grandmother Harriet?

4. At the time when widespread media coverage focused on the Nickel Academy, how many Nickel Boy reunions had been held?

5. 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?

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