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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who accompanied Governor Faubus to a conference with the President?
(a) Virgil Blossom.
(b) Roy Wilkins.
(c) Representative Brooks Hays.
(d) Jess Matthews.

2. What did Melba call the bad boys who copied their hairstyle from James Dean and Elvis?
(a) Thugs.
(b) Greasers.
(c) Sideburners.
(d) Hoodlum.

3. On the first day that the Little Rock Nine attended Central High School classes, the crowd outside the school outnumbered the police by about how much?
(a) Ten times as many.
(b) Fifty times as many.
(c) Twenty times as many.
(d) A hundredfold.

4. Who was the attorney that worked on Brown v. Board of Education and who also asked the Federal District Court on behalf of the NAACP to start integration in Little Rock immediately?
(a) Ralph Abernathy.
(b) Clara Luper.
(c) Mary Thomason.
(d) Thurgood Marshall.

5. What color was the hair of the Arkansas NAACP attorney?
(a) Black.
(b) Brown.
(c) Auburn.
(d) Gray.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said that "integration is no fun"?

2. Who was the Arkansas president of the NAACP in 1957?

3. Melba decided to "claim Saturday for her own" after her first week of school. What time did she rise?

4. Who brought food to the Pattillos, saying "So's the white people won't catch you'all shopping and chop your heads off"?

5. Where did the reporters sit in the federal courtroom that the Little Rock Nine attended?

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