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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the phrase that was used for the first Negro students to attend a white public school in Little Rock?

2. What group does Ms. Winthrop introduce Marlee to?

3. What prop does Marlee use in her presentation on the Quapaw Indians?

4. Who does Marlee share a bedroom with in the beginning of the book?

5. Where do Marlee and Liz meet for the first time after Liz is forced to leave school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ms. Taylor tell Marlee about the reason that Liz is not at school on the day they are supposed to present their history project?

2. What does Marlee discover her new math teacher, Mr. Harding, does differently than her previous math teacher on her first day of school?

3. Why does Marlee decide to give Liz a chance and agree to work on a school history project with her instead of with her usual partner Sally?

4. How does Liz give Marlee her phone number so only Marlee will know what it is?

5. Why do Marlee's parents tell Judy and Marlee that Judy has to move to their grandmother's house in Pine Bluff?

6. What does Marlee's father tell her about his reasons for driving her to school every day?

7. What does Marlee notice about the scientists she sees on T.V. who are involved in space exploration?

8. Why is Marlee disappointed with JT's behavior on the first day she meets him to help him with his math homework?

9. How does Marlee decide to try to get a message to Liz after Liz can not come back to school?

10. Why does Judy make Marlee promise to say at least one full sentence on her first day of school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Although she is a minor character, JT's mother, Mrs. Dalton, has the most to lose from her involvement in the WEC (Women's Emergency Committee to Re-open Our Schools). Write an essay analyzing why Mrs. Dalton chooses to get involved on the more pro-integration side of the debate and the impact her choice to let Marlee open Red's trunk in chapter 54 has on the novel's resolution.

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the novel, adults in Marlee's life who have first-hand knowledge of terrible racially motivated violence like lynchings and murders debate whether Marlee is old enough to hear their stories. Write an essay analyzing the effect these stories, when told to Marlee by her father and the members of the WEC, have on Marlee and on her decision to become a political activist.

Essay Topic 3

When Marlee takes her first plane ride, she expects to be terrified but is delighted to discover she finds flying exhilarating. Write an essay exploring how the flight changes her view of herself and how she responds to her own fears.

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