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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who told Melba to stay away from the window on the first day in school?
(a) The guide.
(b) The homeroom teacher.
(c) The PE teacher.
(d) Mrs. Pickwick.

3. What incident brought the 101st soldiers back on a Thursday?
(a) Gloria being pushed downstairs.
(b) Thelma being cut with a switchblade.
(c) Melba having acid thrown into her face.
(d) Terrence and Jefferson being kicked while Guardsmen watched.

4. Who was Mr. Higgenbottom?
(a) A neighbor.
(b) A male friend of Grandma's.
(c) An imaginary friend.
(d) The shotgun.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Arkansas president of the NAACP in 1957?

2. What was Melba's grandmother's first name?

3. Melba's mother was a teacher. What did she teach?

4. What group of government officials was pressing for the removal of the 101st from Central High School?

5. What was the evening newspaper that the Pattillos sometimes read?

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