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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Liz tries Marlee's suggestion about going through the multiplication tables to help her stay quiet?
(a) It works perfectly.
(b) It does not work.
(c) She gets in a fight with another student.
(d) Liz's mother tells her not to do it.

2. What does Red do to the Negro street cleaner at the Christmas parade?
(a) He reports the street cleaner to the police.
(b) He dumps out the trash the street cleaner has just finished tidying up and harasses him.
(c) He throws eggs at the street cleaner.
(d) He helps the street cleaner do his work.

3. What does Marlee do to help Betty Jean when she tells her about Curtis's arrest?
(a) Marlee calls Liz.
(b) Marlee calls Sally.
(c) Marlee calls David.
(d) Marlee calls her father.

4. What is Marlee's father's surprise Christmas gift for the whole family?
(a) A new car.
(b) A new television.
(c) A train ride.
(d) A plane trip.

5. Who is the first person Marlee tells in her family that she is still seeing Liz?
(a) Judy.
(b) David.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.

6. What does Judy tell Marlee on their bus ride home in Chapter 38?
(a) That Robert Laurence broke up with her.
(b) That she wants to come back home and share a room with Marlee again.
(c) That she is planning to run away.
(d) That she hates Pine Bluff.

7. What happens to Marlee's mother, David and Judy on the flight?
(a) They get headaches.
(b) Their seatbelts break.
(c) They get sick to their stomachs.
(d) They spill their drinks.

8. What disease does Marlee get in January of 1959?
(a) Rubella.
(b) Measles.
(c) Mumps.
(d) Polio.

9. Why does Marlee decide not to tell her father about receiving threatening phone calls related to her WEC work?
(a) She is too sad.
(b) She fears her father would not let her stay in the group.
(c) She is embarrassed.
(d) She is angry.

10. What is one of Marlee's fears that prevents her from feeling comfortable doing the thing Liz asks her to try for the first time in Chapter 36?
(a) Heights.
(b) Small spaces.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Cheese.

11. How does Marlee's mother react to finding the Bible verse Marlee copied and put in her purse?
(a) She asks Marlee's brother if he put it there and then gets sad.
(b) She asks Marlee's father if he put it there and then gets angry.
(c) She is puzzled and can't figure out who put it in her purse.
(d) She asks Marlee if she put the bible verse there but does not ask Marlee why.

12. What is the acronym for the new group Marlee and her parents join to try to protect her father's job?
(a) WEC.
(b) STOP.
(c) NAACP.
(d) CROSS.

13. What do Marlee, JT and Red stumble across in the woods in Chapter 40?
(a) Dynamite.
(b) A deer.
(c) A body.
(d) Guns.

14. What kind of car do Marlee and JT ride to Sally's party in?
(a) A red Mustang.
(b) A gray Chrysler Windsor.
(c) A green Jeep.
(d) A blue Chevrolet.

15. What does Marlee ask Liz to do with her in Chapter 36 that Liz does not want to try?
(a) Paint.
(b) Dance.
(c) Catch crawdads.
(d) Sing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marlee's father tell her is the reason he helped Curtis and got involved with racial justice issues?

2. What was Betty Jean's son Curtis falsely arrested for?

3. What game does Marlee let Sally win at Sally's party?

4. What kind of party does Sally have?

5. What does Marlee finally tell her mother in Chapter 37?

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