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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who told Melba to "make this day the best you can" on the day the 101st took her to school?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her minister.
(c) Mrs. Bates.
(d) Her grandmother.

2. What room number was Melba's homeroom?
(a) 112.
(b) 314.
(c) 201.
(d) 339.

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

4. Who was Virgil Blossom?
(a) The Little Rock school superintendent.
(b) Little Rock Mayor.
(c) Chairman of the School Board.
(d) U.S. District Attorney.

5. On the first day that the Little Rock Nine attended Central High School classes, the crowd outside the school outnumbered the police by about how much?
(a) Twenty times as many.
(b) Ten times as many.
(c) Fifty times as many.
(d) A hundredfold.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. At age four, what did Melba do in her Indian Head tablet?

4. Approximately how many white students attended Central High during the year that Melba attended?

5. Where were the wrestling matches held that Melba and her grandmother attended?

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