Character
The names of Elwood Curtis' parents.
Who are Percy and Evelyn?
These discriminatory laws just ended at the beginning of The Nickel Boys.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This is the incident that leads to Elwood's bike being broken.
What is Elwood intervening when neighborhood kids try to steal candy? What is Elwood being beaten up by the neighborhood kids?
This is the incident that leads to Elwood being sent to Nickel.
What is Elwood hitching a ride in a stolen vehicle?
This legislation disproportionately benefited white veterans.
What is the G.I. Bill?
Elwood (and Cleveland's) house father.
Who is Blakely?
This is the decade in which The Nickel Boys takes place.
What is the 1960s?
These are the ranks (in order) that the boys have to move through in order to graduate from Nickel Academy.
What are Grub, Explorer, Pioneer, and Ace?
This is what the authority at Nickel Academy tells Harriet when she tries to visit Elwood for the first time.
What is that Elwood is sick and that there's no more information?
What Elwood saw in the "beating room" at the White House (3 things).
What was a bloody mattress, pillow, and industrial fan?
This character is the owner of the cigar shop where Elwood worked.
Who is Mr. Marconi?
This is the neighborhood in which Elwood grows up in.
What is Frenchtown?
Elwood goes to this even though Harriet told him "no."
What is a civil rights protest at the movie theater?
This is how Elwood believes he will swiftly graduate from Nickel Academy.
What is by "acting right" or doing "good?"
Elwood is extremely afraid of this person after being beaten by him and seeing what really goes on at The Nickel Academy.
Who is Maynard Spencer?
This character eats soap powder to get out of doing work at Nickel.
Who is Turner?
This separates the black and white boys at The Nickel Academy.
What is a hill? (pg. 50)
This is the potential underlying reason why Elwood's father leaves.
What is inequality in the treatment of black soldiers in the war?
What is frustration about racism in the south?
This is what Elwood notices about the nature of the punishments at Nickel Academy.
What is their lack of sense? (pg. 68)
This is what the white kids at Nickel called "the White House."
What is the "Ice Cream Factory?"
This character is assigned to show Elwood around when he gets to Nickel.
Who is Desmond?
This is the location of the White House as described in chapters 4 OR 5.
What is halfway between the Black and white campuses?
This object led to Elwood's "undoing" and helped establish his morality and sense of self. (EXACT NAME)
What is the record - Martin Luther King at Zion Hill?
This is what the youngest students at Nickel are referred to as.
This place represents hope for the future in The Nickel Boys.
What is the Fun Town?