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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Melba worried would be swept under the carpet for her "grandchildren to retrieve"?
(a) An end to racism.
(b) Her chance for a career.
(c) Her social life.
(d) School integration.

2. 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) Mary Thomason.
(c) Ralph Abernathy.
(d) Thurgood Marshall.

3. Who was Ike?
(a) Grandma's boyfriend.
(b) President Eisenhower.
(c) An NAACP official.
(d) A boy at church.

4. Who accompanied Governor Faubus to a conference with the President?
(a) Jess Matthews.
(b) Roy Wilkins.
(c) Virgil Blossom.
(d) Representative Brooks Hays.

5. 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) Teen Beat.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) True Romance.
(d) True Confessions.

6. Who was Daisy Bates?
(a) Thelma's friend.
(b) A teacher at Central High School.
(c) A school board member.
(d) The Arkansas NAACP president.

7. Who was the other member of the Little Rock Nine who shared Melba's enjoyment of singing?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Thelma.
(c) Carolotta.
(d) Minnijean.

8. What type of car did Melba's mother drive in 1957?
(a) Brown Chevy.
(b) White Ford.
(c) Green Pontiac.
(d) Blue Chrysler.

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

10. What color was the hair of the Arkansas NAACP attorney?
(a) Brown.
(b) Auburn.
(c) Gray.
(d) Black.

11. Who was Conrad?
(a) Melba's brother.
(b) The grocer down the street.
(c) Melba's classmate.
(d) Melba's father.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1955, Melba read about an African American who forced change. Who was that person and what did that person do?

2. How many double-dates had Melba and Vince enjoyed with Grandma and Mr. Claxton at the wrestling matches?

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

4. Who was Mr. Higgenbottom?

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

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