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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 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.

2. What game does Marlee let Sally win at Sally's party?
(a) Croquet.
(b) Spin the bottle.
(c) Horseshoes.
(d) The limbo.

3. How does Betty Jean's and Marlee's relationship change after Marlee goes out of her way to help Betty Jean's son Curtis?
(a) The two start helping each other around the house and Betty Jean bakes special things for Marlee.
(b) The two start working on protest signs together.
(c) The relationship between them becomes more strained.
(d) Marlee's mother tells her not to talk to Betty Jean anymore.

4. Why does Liz say she can not come to the Christmas parade?
(a) Because her family is not Christian.
(b) Because she hates Christmas parades.
(c) Because she is mad at Marlee.
(d) Because it is too dangerous because people might see her there.

5. What meeting does Marlee's mother say they are going to go to at the end of Chapter 41?
(a) The WEC main meeting.
(b) The NAACP regional meeting.
(c) The Human Relations Council meeting.
(d) The Forest Park PTA meeting.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to Marlee's mother, David and Judy on the flight?

3. Who is the first person Marlee sees at the zoo in Chapter 47 whom she recognizes?

4. What does Marlee tell Mr. Harding about working on math in the new year in Chapter 33?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Marlee ask her mother to come pick her up from Sally's roller-skating party?

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

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

5. What does David tell Marlee about the significance of Act 10?

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

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

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

9. Why is Marlee so upset when her mother suggests she tutor JT in math?

10. Why does Liz not understand why Marlee stopped liking JT?

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