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

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 minister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Mrs. Bates.

2. What room number was Melba's homeroom?
(a) 201.
(b) 112.
(c) 314.
(d) 339.

3. Melba's mother was a teacher. What did she teach?
(a) Elementary school math.
(b) 7th grade English.
(c) 11th grade social studies.
(d) College science.

4. 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.

5. Who said, "Are you under lock and key the way I am"?
(a) Carlotta.
(b) Minnijean.
(c) Thelma.
(d) Melba.

6. What was the "sole voice" of Little Rock's African American community in 1957?
(a) Little Rock News.
(b) Little Rock Herald.
(c) Arkansas Times.
(d) Arkansas State Press.

7. Who told Melba "a true warrior does not give up"?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) The mayor.
(c) One of the other students.
(d) Her mother.

8. Who told Melba that she wasn't a quitter?
(a) Mrs. Bates.
(b) Thurgood Marshall.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her brother.

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

10. What type of shoes did Melba wear to school?
(a) Sandals.
(b) Saddle shoes.
(c) Sneakers.
(d) Boots.

11. 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) Bernice Fisher, who forces lunch counters to integrate.
(c) Samuel Wilbur Tucker, who forces integration at libraries.
(d) Rosa Parks, who refuses to give up her seat on a bus.

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

13. Where were the wrestling matches held that Melba and her grandmother attended?
(a) Convention Center.
(b) Ninth Avenue Recreation Center.
(c) Robinson Auditorium.
(d) Horace Mann gymnasium.

14. Who was the attorney that worked on Brown v. Board of Education and who also asked the Federal District Court on behalf of the NAACP to start integration in Little Rock immediately?
(a) Clara Luper.
(b) Thurgood Marshall.
(c) Ralph Abernathy.
(d) Mary Thomason.

15. Who did President Eisenhower send to protect the students integrating into Central High School?
(a) U.S. Army Reserve.
(b) The National Guard.
(c) The 101st Airborne Division.
(d) The Arkansas 2nd Expeditionary Unit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the Little Rock Nine started to turn blue after entering the Central High office?

2. What color was the hair of the Arkansas NAACP attorney?

3. Where did the Pattillos usually sit at church?

4. What historic event happened on the day the author was born?

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

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