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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Liz and Marlee decide to do their project on?
(a) The first mayor of Little Rock.
(b) The Cherokee Indians.
(c) The Quapaw Indians.
(d) The history of school integration movements.

2. What does Marlee's father tell her about who Pastor George is?
(a) He is Betty Jean's husband.
(b) He is a cousin of theirs.
(c) He is a work colleague.
(d) He is their accountant.

3. What does Ms. Taylor tell Marlee on the day of her and Liz's presentation?
(a) Liz has had a terrible accident.
(b) Liz's father has died and she will be out of school for the week.
(c) Liz is never coming back to school.
(d) Liz will be absent for the school day.

4. How does Marlee cut her finger when she and Judy go to the rock crusher?
(a) On a blade of grass.
(b) On a sharp rock.
(c) On a bit of barbed wire.
(d) On a knife.

5. How does Marlee know Ms. Winthrop?
(a) Ms. Winthrop is the diner owner.
(b) Ms. Winthrop is her piano teacher.
(c) Ms. Winthrop is her Sunday school teacher.
(d) Ms. Winthrop is her mother's cousin.

6. What does Marlee's mother tell Marlee's father in Chapter 18 that makes him very angry?
(a) She is working for the pro-segregationists.
(b) She accepted a job at a private high school.
(c) She spent all their grocery money on new furniture.
(d) She has donated money to communist causes.

7. In Chapter 1, what does Marlee attempt to do that she fails at while at the pool?
(a) She tries to jump off the high dive but is too afraid to go through with it.
(b) She tries to do a back flip from the pool's edge.
(c) She tries to eat six hot dogs.
(d) She tries to hold her breath underwater for 30 seconds.

8. What reason does Ms. Taylor give for Liz's school absence?
(a) Liz had a terrible accident.
(b) Liz had to move away.
(c) Liz is very sick.
(d) Liz's grandmother died.

9. What group does Ms. Winthrop introduce Marlee to?
(a) The National Organization for Women.
(b) The NAACP.
(c) CROSS.
(d) The WEC.

10. Where do Liz and Marlee decide to meet to work on their project after their first meeting in the library?
(a) Marlee's house.
(b) The zoo.
(c) The rock crusher.
(d) The football field.

11. What does Liz tell Marlee about Liz's own mother?
(a) She had to work as a bus driver.
(b) She loved math and should have been a scientist.
(c) She had to work as a translator.
(d) She loved English and should have been a writer.

12. How does Liz decide to give Marlee her phone number so no one but they will know what it is?
(a) She writes it in a magic square format.
(b) She gives Marlee an encrypted key to decipher the numbers.
(c) She taps it out in Morse code.
(d) She writes it in invisible ink.

13. What does Sally say she did with her hairbrush that she loaned to Liz?
(a) Burned it.
(b) Threw it away.
(c) Kept it.
(d) Sold it.

14. What is Marlee's family so pleased about that happened on Marlee's first day of school?
(a) Marlee said two sentences, far more than she usually says in school.
(b) Marlee aced a test.
(c) Marlee was asked out by a boy she likes.
(d) Marlee won a race.

15. What prop does Marlee use in her presentation on the Quapaw Indians?
(a) A string of shells.
(b) A blade of grass.
(c) An apple seed.
(d) A peach pit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What deal does Liz make with Marlee about the presentation?

2. What is the name of the Nisbett's house maid?

3. What animals do both Liz and Marlee like to listen to at the zoo?

4. How does Marlee's friend Sally treat her when she becomes overcome with anxiety at the pool?

5. Where do Marlee and Liz meet for the first time after Liz is forced to leave school?

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