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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What street was Central High School located on?
(a) Main Street.
(b) Fifteenth Street.
(c) Park Street.
(d) Ninth Avenue.

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

3. Who does Grandma describe as "smart like a fox"?
(a) President Eisenhower.
(b) Judge Davies.
(c) Thurgood Marshall.
(d) Governor Faubus.

4. Which of Melba's classes did she describe as a zoo?
(a) French class.
(b) English.
(c) Typing.
(d) Study hall.

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) Orval Faubus.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) Winthrop Rockefeller.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many students were chosen to integrate the Little Rock High School?

2. Who was Ike?

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

4. 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?

5. In 1955, Melba read about an African American who forced change. Who was that person and what did that person do?

(see the answer key)

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