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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Vince bring to Melba for their date?
(a) A box of chocolate.
(b) A dozen red roses.
(c) A handful of daisies.
(d) A single yellow rose.

2. Who does Grandma describe as "smart like a fox"?
(a) Governor Faubus.
(b) Judge Davies.
(c) President Eisenhower.
(d) Thurgood Marshall.

3. Who did Melba compared to "cats in sunlight"?
(a) Central High School staff.
(b) Arkansas National Guard.
(c) White segregationists.
(d) Little Rock police.

4. Who said that "integration is no fun"?
(a) Vince.
(b) Melba.
(c) Melba's brother, Conrad.
(d) Marsha.

5. What did Melba recite to herself to keep her focus?
(a) Lyrics to her favorite song.
(b) A nursery rhyme.
(c) The Lord's Prayer.
(d) The Gettysburg Address.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the date that the Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. Board of Education?

2. Who did the author meet on the 30th anniversary of Little Rock integration that her brother referred to as "good people"?

3. What did Grandma India hit to scare off the men shooting at them?

4. What did Melba hear when the 101st soldiers escorted the nine students inside Central High School?

5. Who yelled to Melba, "Now you've had your lesson. You don't have to go back to that awful school anymore"?

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