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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second thing Marlee suggests might help Liz stay quiet in tense situations?
(a) Finding the nearest tree and climbing it.
(b) Playing cat's cradle.
(c) Doing multiplication tables on her fingers.
(d) Snapping her fingers.

2. Who do Marlee and her mother meet while they are out doing political work on the street in Chapter 45?
(a) JT and Red.
(b) Liz.
(c) Sally and Mrs. McDaniels.
(d) Mrs. Dalton.

3. What is Marlee looking for that Red has in Chapter 47?
(a) Dynamite.
(b) Guns.
(c) Money.
(d) Knives.

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

5. Marlee realizes that JT gets many of his racist ideas from which members of his family?
(a) His father and brother.
(b) His brother and mother.
(c) His father and mother.
(d) His mother and sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marlee give to her mother before her mother speaks at the meeting in Chapter 42?

2. What does Mrs Dalton reveal to the WEC members about her husband at the WEC meeting in Chapter 39?

3. Where does JT tell Marlee Red has hidden the dynamite?

4. What do Marlee, JT and Red stumble across in the woods in Chapter 40?

5. Who sits next to Marlee on the Christmas float?

Short Essay Questions

1. What idea does Ms. Winthrop bring to the WEC that the group's leaders reject?

2. How does Marlee's expectation of the plane ride her father gives the family compare with her actual experience of the journey?

3. What does Marlee's mother tell her about the origins of Marlee's name when she gives her the letter opener on her birthday?

4. What do the leaders of the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) insist is their only mission and why?

5. What big news does Judy tell Marlee over Thanksgiving break and what does Marlee think about it?

6. How does JT react when Marlee finally tells him she will no longer do his math homework for him?

7. What is the reason Marlee's father gives when she asks him why he helped Curtis get out of jail?

8. What did Betty Jean tell Marlee about what the NAACP had advised Negroes about sending their children to private segregated schools?

9. What does Liz ask Marlee to do in exchange for Liz catching crawdads with Marlee?

10. Why did Marlee feel so responsible for Betty Jean's son, Curtis's, arrest?

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