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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 told Melba to "make this day the best you can" on the day the 101st took her to school?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Mrs. Bates.
(c) Her minister.
(d) Her grandmother.

2. Who told the mobs in Little Rock that they must cease and desist?
(a) The commander of the National Guard.
(b) The Chief of Police.
(c) The President.
(d) The Mayor.

3. 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) Thelma.
(c) Minnijean.
(d) Melba.

4. Who did Melba compared to "cats in sunlight"?
(a) Little Rock police.
(b) Arkansas National Guard.
(c) Central High School staff.
(d) White segregationists.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many white students attended Central High during the year that Melba attended?

2. Where did the reporters sit in the federal courtroom that the Little Rock Nine attended?

3. What was the "sole voice" of Little Rock's African American community in 1957?

4. Whose songs did Melba once want to sing at talent shows?

5. After the fire drill, who escorted Melba, Carlotta and Thelma to the restroom and cafeteria?

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