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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was supposed to be the first day of school for Melba in 1957?
(a) September 5.
(b) September 16.
(c) September 3.
(d) August 31.

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

3. What was Melba's class after gym class?
(a) French.
(b) Shorthand.
(c) English.
(d) Math.

4. Which of the Little Rock Nine started to turn blue after entering the Central High office?
(a) Melba.
(b) Millijean.
(c) Thelma.
(d) Elizabeth.

5. How did the Pattillos escape Andy and his friends at the store?
(a) By running faster than the boys.
(b) With a police escort.
(c) By sneaking away.
(d) Walking with three large sisters of the church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the date that the Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. Board of Education?

2. What did Melba's grandmother say was the mark of a disciplined individual?

3. What day of the week was graduation held on?

4. What did Melba hear when the 101st soldiers escorted the nine students inside Central High School?

5. Who told the Little Rock Nine to "complain only when something is injurious to your health, or life-threatening"?

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