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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who sends a telegram to the governor and expects full cooperation for integration?
(a) President Eisenhower.
(b) Director of the FBI.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) Thurgood Marshall.

2. What two students are chosen to testify in federal court in the school integration case?
(a) Thelma and Melba.
(b) Jefferson and Millijean.
(c) Terrence and Carlotta.
(d) Ernest and Elizabeth.

3. Whose eyes were hidden by dark glasses, which were probably hiding the fear she felt on the first day at Central High School?
(a) Minnijean.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Melba.
(d) Thelma.

4. Who told Melba that she wasn't a quitter?
(a) Thurgood Marshall.
(b) Mrs. Bates.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her grandmother.

5. 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) Fifty times as many.
(b) Ten times as many.
(c) Twenty times as many.
(d) A hundredfold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first white person to call Melba "Miss Pattillo"?

2. Who is Melba's secret crush?

3. Who was the governor of Arkansas at the time integration is first sought at Central High School?

4. Who was Virgil Blossom?

5. What places did Melba's father talk about where African American men were treated equal?

(see the answer key)

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