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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) Rosa Parks, who refuses to give up her seat on a bus.
(c) Samuel Wilbur Tucker, who forces integration at libraries.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr., whose protest shut down buses in Montgomery.

5. Who did the author meet on the 30th anniversary of Little Rock integration that her brother referred to as "good people"?
(a) Eisenhower's daughter.
(b) Winthrop Rockefeller.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) Orval Faubus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What historic event happened on the day the author was born?

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

4. Who did Melba's grandmother travel to Italy with during her lifetime?

5. What did Grandma India hit to scare off the men shooting at them?

(see the answer key)

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