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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of car did Melba's mother drive in 1957?
(a) Blue Chrysler.
(b) Green Pontiac.
(c) White Ford.
(d) Brown Chevy.

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

3. 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) Thurgood Marshall.
(b) Ralph Abernathy.
(c) Mary Thomason.
(d) Clara Luper.

4. Who told Melba to stay away from the window on the first day in school?
(a) The guide.
(b) The homeroom teacher.
(c) The PE teacher.
(d) Mrs. Pickwick.

5. What did Grandma India hit to scare off the men shooting at them?
(a) A tire.
(b) A metal trash can.
(c) A trash burner.
(d) Someone's hat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Mr. Higgenbottom?

3. Who saved Melba from being raped by an angry white man?

4. What were the girls doing in Melba's first gym class?

5. Who told Melba to "make this day the best you can" on the day the 101st took her to school?

(see the answer key)

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