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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was supposed to be the first day of school for Melba in 1957?
(a) September 16.
(b) August 31.
(c) September 3.
(d) September 5.

3. Melba's mother was a teacher. What did she teach?
(a) Elementary school math.
(b) 7th grade English.
(c) College science.
(d) 11th grade social studies.

4. Where did the reporters sit in the federal courtroom that the Little Rock Nine attended?
(a) With the Little Rock Nine.
(b) In the jury box.
(c) Outside of the courtroom.
(d) Behind a rope.

5. Who spoke with a "quick New York accent overlying a slight Southern drawl"?
(a) Thurgood Marshall.
(b) Dr. Lorch.
(c) Wiley Branton.
(d) Herbert Brownell, Jr.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author what were most girls listening to in 1957?

3. What was the date that the Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. Board of Education?

4. 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?

5. Who said that "integration is no fun"?

(see the answer key)

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