The Nickel Boys: Plot
Elwood's favorite record plays this.
What are MLK, Jr. speeches?
Elwood is arrested in a car stolen by this person.
Who is Rodney?
Dana gets set back to her time whenever this happens.
What is being in serious and immediate danger?
This character is mute.
Who is Carrie?
This is Justice Wargrave's primary reason for orchestrating the murders.
What is the desire to kill?
After some time at Nickel, Elwood realizes that this is rigged.
What is the merit system?
Jaime is moved back and forth between both sides of Nickel because of this.
What is being Mexican?
Dana can't kill Rufus earlier in the book because she needs this to happen.
What is her ancestor being born?
This character dies by suicide.
Who is Alice?
An intentionally misleading clue in a mystery story is also called this.
What is a red herring?
Adult "Elwood" runs this business. (Double points if you get the name of the business!)
What is a moving company? (ACE Moving)
This person asks adult Elwood for a job.
Who is Chickie Pete?
Rufus makes this request of Dana at the end of the book.
What is that she marry him/take Alice's place?
This character dies of a heart attack.
Who is Tom Weylin?
This character kills Lombard.
Who is Vera Claythorne?
The Nickel school sells these to local businesses.
What are the Black students' supplies?
This person is murdered after a boxing match?
Who is Griff?
Rufus gets this illness multiple times. (Double points if you can name what we call it *and* what people of Rufus' time call it.)
What is malaria/ague?
This character becomes addicted to opium.
Who is Margaret Weylin?
This is the first character to die.
Who is Anthony Marston?
At the end of the novel, Turner is here.
What is the restaurant where Elwood once worked?
Clayton Smith almost succeeded at this.
What is escaping Nickel?
This is the correct order of chapter titles in the book.
What is: The River, The Fire, The Fall, The Fight, The Storm, and The Rope?
This character is sold and has their ears cut off.
Who is Isaac?
This is what Wargrave did with the letter he wrote confessing his crimes.
What is put it in a bottle and threw it out to sea?