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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When raw eggs were dumped on Melba, she compared it to the same feeling she got when what happened?
(a) Being spit on.
(b) Being trapped in a bathroom stall.
(c) Being tripped.
(d) Being threatened.

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

3. Whose songs did Melba once want to sing at talent shows?
(a) Lena Horne.
(b) Rosemary Clooney.
(c) Dinah Washington.
(d) Diana Ross.

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

5. Where was Melba's mother offered a teaching job?
(a) New York.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spoke with a "quick New York accent overlying a slight Southern drawl"?

2. Who was the other member of the Little Rock Nine who shared Melba's enjoyment of singing?

3. What did Melba have to drink at the home of the NAACP president before talking to the press?

4. Why did Nana Healey lose her job?

5. Melba wrote in her diary that she sometimes wished to be what in order to understand why she was so hated at school?

(see the answer key)

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