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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What record albums did Melba play for romantic daydreaming?
(a) Richie Valens and Little Richard.
(b) Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr.
(c) Elvis Presley and Sam Cooke.
(d) Nat King Cole and Johnny Mathis.

2. What was the evening newspaper that the Pattillos sometimes read?
(a) Little Rock News.
(b) Arkansas Gazette.
(c) Little Rock Herald.
(d) Arkansas Democrat.

3. Who was Daisy Bates?
(a) A teacher at Central High School.
(b) A school board member.
(c) The Arkansas NAACP president.
(d) Thelma's friend.

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

5. After the fire drill, who escorted Melba, Carlotta and Thelma to the restroom and cafeteria?
(a) Mrs. Pickwick.
(b) Johnny.
(c) Danny.
(d) Mrs. Huckaby.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What was supposed to be the first day of school for Melba in 1957?

3. What did Melba's old friend Marsha call Melba?

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

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?

(see the answer key)

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