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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who saved Melba from being raped by an angry white man?
(a) Carl.
(b) Conrad.
(c) Marissa.
(d) Grandma India.

2. What did Grandma India nickname the two white men that watch their house?
(a) Drib and drab.
(b) Mutt and Jeff.
(c) Abbott and Costello.
(d) The Marx Brothers.

3. What two students are chosen to testify in federal court in the school integration case?
(a) Ernest and Elizabeth.
(b) Jefferson and Millijean.
(c) Terrence and Carlotta.
(d) Thelma and Melba.

4. What was the popular name of the 101st Airborne Division?
(a) Fighting Squadron.
(b) Screaming Eagles.
(c) Fearless Hawks.
(d) Flying Tigers.

5. Who told Melba that she wasn't a quitter?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Mrs. Bates.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Thurgood Marshall.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many New Year's Resolutions did Melba make?

2. Who was Virgil Blossom?

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

4. Who offered a reward for getting the remaining Little Rock Nine expelled?

5. What was Melba stabbed in the back with?

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