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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. What name did Elwood decide to bestow upon the moving company he had personally founded?
(a) Black Beauty Moving.
(b) Ace Moving.
(c) Turner Moving.
(d) White House Moving.

2. What kind of strike was happening at the time Elwood moved to New York City?
(a) A garbage workers' strike.
(b) A teachers' strike.
(c) A petroleum workers' strike.
(d) A writers' strike.

3. How many boys in total did the Nickel staff get out of their beds the night they punished Elwood and some others for fighting?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

4. What method did Turner and Elwood use to travel toward Tallahassee after their escape?
(a) On foot.
(b) Train.
(c) Bicycle.
(d) Hitchhiking.

5. How did Turner make his displeasure known after Elwood shared his plan to slip a whistle-blowing letter about Nickel to the state inspectors?
(a) He refused to speak to Elwood.
(b) He threw a bucket of water on Elwood's bed each afternoon.
(c) He told Blakely about Elwood's plan.
(d) He got Harper to remove Elwood from the Community Service team.

Short Answer Questions

1. What parts of the Nickel Boys' bodies were whipped with the strap referred to as "Black Beauty" (68)?

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

3. 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?

4. How many generations of Elwood's family had worked at the Richmond Hotel over the years?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 8, Elwood "returned to the yard crew" (64) after a several-day stay in what location?

(see the answer key)

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