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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 14-16 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For how many weeks had Denise possessed keys to Elwood's New York City apartment by the start of Chapter 11?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

3. In what kind of location in Tallahassee had Jaime liked to hang out with his friends before his stint at Nickel?
(a) Under a river bridge.
(b) A train yard.
(c) A garbage dump.
(d) On the rooftop of City Hall.

4. On what day of Elwood's incarceration at Nickel does he meet Turner?
(a) His tenth.
(b) His third.
(c) His first.
(d) His second.

5. Turner told Elwood that only boys with what quality were ever taken "out back" (103)?
(a) Black boys.
(b) Failed escapees.
(c) White boys.
(d) Violent boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many afternoons did Elwood spend at the Richmond Hotel after the trick was played on him with the use of encyclopedias?

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?

3. Phil the houseman told Elwood and the other boys at the scene of the fight that which character would soon hear of the incident?

4. Prior to having his escape plan foiled, Clinton Smith had been planning to join which member of his family as soon as possible?

5. In what month did Elwood first move to New York City?

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