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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Melba's grandmother travel to Italy with during her lifetime?
(a) Her father.
(b) No one - she went by herself.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her employer.

2. Who did the author meet on the 30th anniversary of Little Rock integration that her brother referred to as "good people"?
(a) Winthrop Rockefeller.
(b) Orval Faubus.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) Eisenhower's daughter.

3. Who told Melba to stay away from the window on the first day in school?
(a) The homeroom teacher.
(b) The guide.
(c) Mrs. Pickwick.
(d) The PE teacher.

4. Who does Grandma describe as "smart like a fox"?
(a) Governor Faubus.
(b) Judge Davies.
(c) Thurgood Marshall.
(d) President Eisenhower.

5. What was Melba's grandmother's first name?
(a) Anette.
(b) Unknown.
(c) Lois.
(d) India.

6. Melba had a secret copy of a magazine that she read after she and her mother returned home from unsuccessfully being admitted to Central High School. What was it?
(a) True Romance.
(b) Teen Beat.
(c) True Confessions.
(d) Seventeen.

7. Who was the first white person to call Melba "Miss Pattillo"?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) An NAACP official.
(c) A white reporter.
(d) A police officer.

8. Who said that "integration is no fun"?
(a) Melba's brother, Conrad.
(b) Vince.
(c) Melba.
(d) Marsha.

9. Who spoke with a "quick New York accent overlying a slight Southern drawl"?
(a) Thurgood Marshall.
(b) Herbert Brownell, Jr.
(c) Dr. Lorch.
(d) Wiley Branton.

10. What record albums did Melba play for romantic daydreaming?
(a) Nat King Cole and Johnny Mathis.
(b) Richie Valens and Little Richard.
(c) Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr.
(d) Elvis Presley and Sam Cooke.

11. At age four, what did Melba do in her Indian Head tablet?
(a) Practice letters.
(b) Color.
(c) Write in her journal.
(d) Draw pictures.

12. Who brought food to the Pattillos, saying "So's the white people won't catch you'all shopping and chop your heads off"?
(a) Melba's father.
(b) Mrs. Beals.
(c) Mrs. Convers.
(d) Mrs. Floyd.

13. Who is Melba's secret crush?
(a) Elvis.
(b) Vince.
(c) Link.
(d) Terence.

14. Who was the governor of Arkansas at the time integration is first sought at Central High School?
(a) Bill Clinton.
(b) Francis Cherry.
(c) Orval Faubus.
(d) Winthrop Rockefeller.

15. Who was the Arkansas president of the NAACP in 1957?
(a) Ed Claxton.
(b) Daisy Bates.
(c) Marjorie Williams.
(d) Wiley Branton.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does "amicus curiae" mean in "Warriors Don't Cry"?

3. Who was Daisy Bates?

4. Who accompanied Governor Faubus to a conference with the President?

5. In 1954, what was the population of Little Rock and of that number, how many were African American?

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