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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-4.

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. At age four, what did Melba do in her Indian Head tablet?
(a) Write in her journal.
(b) Color.
(c) Practice letters.
(d) Draw pictures.

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) Thelma.
(b) Melba.
(c) Minnijean.
(d) Elizabeth.

4. Who was Mr. Higgenbottom?
(a) A neighbor.
(b) A male friend of Grandma's.
(c) An imaginary friend.
(d) The shotgun.

5. In 1955, Melba read about an African American who forced change. Who was that person and what did that person do?
(a) Bernice Fisher, who forces lunch counters to integrate.
(b) Samuel Wilbur Tucker, who forces integration at libraries.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr., whose protest shut down buses in Montgomery.
(d) Rosa Parks, who refuses to give up her seat on a bus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What record albums did Melba play for romantic daydreaming?

2. Who did President Eisenhower send to protect the students integrating into Central High School?

3. What was Melba's grandmother's first name?

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

5. What was the "sole voice" of Little Rock's African American community in 1957?

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