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

2. What does Marlee's father tell her is the reason he helped Curtis and got involved with racial justice issues?
(a) He had made friends with a Negro writer and felt responsible to help him.
(b) He was moved by the injustice of Emmett Till's murder.
(c) He had a Negro nanny as a child and he felt loyal to her.
(d) He was moved by the Negro students he taught at his high school.

3. What do Marlee and David talk about in Chapter 38?
(a) Racial and political issues.
(b) Math.
(c) Food.
(d) Romantic relationships.

4. Who ends up driving Marlee and JT to Sally's party?
(a) Marlee's mother.
(b) Marlee's father.
(c) JT's mother.
(d) Red.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What historical event does Mrs. Terry tell Marlee about at the WEC meeting in Chapter 39?

2. What is the acronym for the new group Marlee and her parents join to try to protect her father's job?

3. What happens when Liz tries Marlee's suggestion about going through the multiplication tables to help her stay quiet?

4. What does Marlee ask Liz to do with her in Chapter 36 that Liz does not want to try?

5. What does Mrs. Winthrop come to the house to tell Marlee's parents in Chapter 41?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the WEC leaders tell Marlee about how they deal with the threatening letters they receive about their political work?

2. Why does Marlee walk into the woods when she realizes JT and Red have followed her to the rock crusher?

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

4. How does Marlee feel about Liz's budding relationship with Curtis?

5. What does Mrs. Dalton, JT's mother, tell the WEC women about why she is there helping the group?

6. What event finally forces Marlee to tell her parents that she has been secretly meeting Liz for months?

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

8. What problems does Liz tell Marlee she experiences once she has to attend the Negro school in her neighborhood?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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