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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 does Marlee tell Liz she will be doing at the Christmas parade?
(a) Singing a song.
(b) Giving a speech.
(c) Dancing with her dance class.
(d) Riding on her church's float.

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

3. What effect does Marlee's mother's speech have on her?
(a) She realizes how disappointed her mother is in her.
(b) She realizes that her mother will always be in favor of segregation.
(c) She realizes her mother really loves her and is proud of her.
(d) She realizes her mother is very angry with her.

4. What do Marlee and her mother do together in Chapter 45 that Marlee's mother lets her skip school for?
(a) Making protest signs.
(b) Making cakes.
(c) Canvassing to get petition signatures for the school board election.
(d) Folding flyers.

5. Who does Marlee's mother tell her she is named after?
(a) Marlee Davidson.
(b) Marlee Curtis.
(c) Marlena Hayes.
(d) Marlene Dietrich.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 28, what does Marlee suggest that Liz try as an alternative to the times tables to help keep her temper and stay quiet?

2. Why is Mrs. Brewer against asking Negroes to join the WEC?

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

4. 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?

5. What does Marlee discover Act 10 is all about?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Red do at the Christmas parade that upsets Marlee?

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

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

5. What purpose does Marlee help Ms. Winthrop canvass her neighborhood for?

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

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

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

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

10. What did Marlee hope would come of her writing down a Bible verse and putting it in her mother's purse?

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