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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea did Melba become obsessed with in late January of the school year?
(a) Wearing grown up clothing.
(b) Beating up on Andy and his friends.
(c) Leaving Central High School.
(d) Being dead.

2. Who was the Arkansas president of the NAACP in 1957?
(a) Daisy Bates.
(b) Marjorie Williams.
(c) Wiley Branton.
(d) Ed Claxton.

3. Who was Mrs. Huckaby?
(a) One of the mothers of the white students.
(b) A teacher.
(c) Central High Vice-Principal for girls.
(d) The mother of one of the Little Rock Nine.

4. Which of the white students warns Melba that she needs to leave school immediately one day?
(a) Jerry.
(b) Tommy.
(c) Link.
(d) Billy.

5. After the unsuccessful meeting with the school superintendent, what door did the students take to enter Central High School?
(a) Basement garage entry.
(b) Side door at Sixteenth and Park.
(c) Front door.
(d) Side door at Fourteenth and Park.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did Melba's English teacher assign for a book report?

2. Who said to Melba, "anger brings defeat"?

3. What was Grandma India's favorite hymn?

4. The nine students won the highest honor awarded by the NAACP. What was it?

5. Who told the mobs in Little Rock that they must cease and desist?

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