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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who replaced Judge Davies in the Little Rock integration case?
(a) Judge Crowley.
(b) Judge Harper.
(c) Judge Bush.
(d) Judge Albert.

2. What type of car did Melba's mother drive in 1957?
(a) White Ford.
(b) Brown Chevy.
(c) Blue Chrysler.
(d) Green Pontiac.

3. 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?
(a) Clara Luper.
(b) Ralph Abernathy.
(c) Mary Thomason.
(d) Thurgood Marshall.

4. Who did Melba's grandmother travel to Italy with during her lifetime?
(a) Her employer.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her husband.
(d) No one - she went by herself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose concert was Melba not allowed to go to in 1956 due to segregation?

2. What was Grandma India's favorite hymn?

3. Which of Melba's classes did she describe as a zoo?

4. Who told Melba that she wasn't a quitter?

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

(see the answer key)

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