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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Conrad?
(a) The grocer down the street.
(b) Melba's father.
(c) Melba's classmate.
(d) Melba's brother.

2. What group of government officials was pressing for the removal of the 101st from Central High School?
(a) Southern governors.
(b) Arkansas state legislature.
(c) Arkansas mayors.
(d) Southern U.S. Senators.

3. Who was Virgil Blossom?
(a) The Little Rock school superintendent.
(b) Little Rock Mayor.
(c) Chairman of the School Board.
(d) U.S. District Attorney.

4. Where were the wrestling matches held that Melba and her grandmother attended?
(a) Ninth Avenue Recreation Center.
(b) Convention Center.
(c) Horace Mann gymnasium.
(d) Robinson Auditorium.

5. What historic event happened on the day the author was born?
(a) Okinawa is bombed.
(b) The beach at Normandy is stormed.
(c) Pearl Harbor is bombed.
(d) The Korean War begins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the Little Rock Nine started to turn blue after entering the Central High office?

2. Who sends a telegram to the governor and expects full cooperation for integration?

3. Who came looking for Melba at Central High with a red face and a frown?

4. Who spoke with a "quick New York accent overlying a slight Southern drawl"?

5. What did Melba hear when the 101st soldiers escorted the nine students inside Central High School?

(see the answer key)

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