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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Melba have to drink at the home of the NAACP president before talking to the press?
(a) Cherry Cola.
(b) RC Cola.
(c) Grapette Cola.
(d) Vanilla Coke.

3. Who yelled to Melba, "Now you've had your lesson. You don't have to go back to that awful school anymore"?
(a) Marsha.
(b) Melba's father.
(c) Mrs. Floyd.
(d) Mrs. Convers.

4. Who told the Little Rock Nine to "complain only when something is injurious to your health, or life-threatening"?
(a) NAACP officials.
(b) School officials.
(c) National Guard.
(d) The police.

5. Melba wrote in her diary that she sometimes wished to be what in order to understand why she was so hated at school?
(a) Mind reader.
(b) Counselor.
(c) Psychiatrist.
(d) Segregationst.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Melba hit with the car that she takes from school?

3. Who attacked Melba at the pep rally?

4. Who saved Melba from being raped by an angry white man?

5. What song did Minnijean want to sing in the talent show?

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