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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. Who is Marlee surprised to see at her first WEC meeting?

2. What game does Marlee let Sally win at Sally's party?

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

4. Why is Marlee's mother unable to go to the zoo with her in Chapter 47?

5. What does Mrs. Dalton ask of Marlee before she leaves her first WEC meeting?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What idea does Marlee come up with to help Liz be quiet in tense situations?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Marlee develops a special relationship with Betty Jean, her family's Negro maid. Write an essay analyzing when and why Marlee begins confiding in Betty Jean in a way she can not seem to do with her own family members.

Essay Topic 2

In the beginning of the book, Marlee's mother Maurine initially opposes school integration, but by the novel's end she actively supports it. Write an essay analyzing the evolution of Marlee's mother's ideas about integration and racial equality.

Essay Topic 3

When Marlee and Liz are attempting to preserve their friendship despite the fact that Marlee is white and Liz is a Negro, their parents and everyone they know in the community forbids it. Write an essay exploring the reasons, as described by Levine in the novel, why people were so against a friendship like theirs in Little Rock in the late 1950s.

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