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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many white students attended Central High during the year that Melba attended?
(a) 1675.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1700.

2. Who was Mrs. Huckaby?
(a) Central High Vice-Principal for girls.
(b) One of the mothers of the white students.
(c) The mother of one of the Little Rock Nine.
(d) A teacher.

3. Who did Melba know who graduated from college in 1954?
(a) Melba's best friend.
(b) Melba's father.
(c) Melba's mother.
(d) Melba's preacher.

4. Where did the Pattillos usually sit at church?
(a) Right of center.
(b) Second row.
(c) Left of center.
(d) In the balcony.

5. In 1955, Melba read about an African American who forced change. Who was that person and what did that person do?
(a) Rosa Parks, who refuses to give up her seat on a bus.
(b) Bernice Fisher, who forces lunch counters to integrate.
(c) Samuel Wilbur Tucker, who forces integration at libraries.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr., whose protest shut down buses in Montgomery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Saturday meeting between the two factions of students take place and who was recording it?

2. Who told Melba to "make this day the best you can" on the day the 101st took her to school?

3. What room at school did Melba sometimes avoid because it was become "the main place for them to get me"?

4. 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?

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

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