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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 historic event happened on the day the author was born?
(a) Okinawa is bombed.
(b) The Korean War begins.
(c) Pearl Harbor is bombed.
(d) The beach at Normandy is stormed.

2. How many students were chosen to integrate the Little Rock High School?
(a) Ten.
(b) Nine.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Eight.

3. Approximately how many white students attended Central High during the year that Melba attended?
(a) 1700.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1675.
(d) 1825.

4. What record albums did Melba play for romantic daydreaming?
(a) Richie Valens and Little Richard.
(b) Elvis Presley and Sam Cooke.
(c) Nat King Cole and Johnny Mathis.
(d) Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr.

5. Who was Conrad?
(a) Melba's brother.
(b) Melba's father.
(c) Melba's classmate.
(d) The grocer down the street.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Melba's opinion, who looked like a caramel-colored James Darin?

2. 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?

3. Who told Melba "a true warrior does not give up"?

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

5. Who was the other member of the Little Rock Nine who shared Melba's enjoyment of singing?

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