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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the first day that the Little Rock Nine attended Central High School classes, the crowd outside the school outnumbered the police by about how much?
(a) Twenty times as many.
(b) A hundredfold.
(c) Fifty times as many.
(d) Ten times as many.

2. 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.

3. What street was Central High School located on?
(a) Main Street.
(b) Ninth Avenue.
(c) Park Street.
(d) Fifteenth Street.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What room number was Melba's homeroom?

2. Whose concert was Melba not allowed to go to in 1956 due to segregation?

3. What type of shoes did Melba wear to school?

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

5. Who did President Eisenhower send to protect the students integrating into Central High School?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Grandma India's bedroom.

2. Who were the boys who were part of the integration effort?

3. What was Melba's father like and what work did he do?

4. How did Melba arrive to Central High School on her third attempt?

5. What did Melba do with her time on the first day of school after she was forced to return home?

6. Who was Marissa?

7. When the author arrived for the 1987 reunion, what was the most astounding evidence that things had changed?

8. What happened to Elizabeth when she couldn't get into the school on the first day?

9. What did Melba do before she got in her mother's car for the first day of school at Central High School in Little Rock?

10. What did Grandma India do and say to Melba after the attempted rape?

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