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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Ten times as many.
(b) Twenty times as many.
(c) A hundredfold.
(d) Fifty times as many.

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

4. Who was the Arkansas president of the NAACP in 1957?
(a) Marjorie Williams.
(b) Ed Claxton.
(c) Daisy Bates.
(d) Wiley Branton.

5. Melba had a secret copy of a magazine that she read after she and her mother returned home from unsuccessfully being admitted to Central High School. What was it?
(a) True Confessions.
(b) True Romance.
(c) Teen Beat.
(d) Seventeen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Ike?

3. After Judge Davis ordered school integration to continue, what day and time did Governor Faubus remove the National Guard from Central High School?

4. Who does Grandma describe as "smart like a fox"?

5. Who was Conrad?

(see the answer key)

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