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

2. 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) Rosa Parks, who refuses to give up her seat on a bus.
(d) Samuel Wilbur Tucker, who forces integration at libraries.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Mrs. Huckaby?

2. What was Melba's grandmother's first name?

3. 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?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Melba's dad visited after her first visit to school. Explain what happened.

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

3. Who was the first judge who ruled on the integration case in Little Rock? What was his background?

4. What was Melba's first impression of the inside of Central High School?

5. Describe the federal courtroom that Melba and the other eight students visited.

6. Why did Mrs. Bates shush Melba in Chapter Nine?

7. Describe Grandma India's bedroom.

8. Describe the other girls who integrated into Central High School with Melba.

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

10. What happened when Melba and her mother leave their neighborhood for Central High School?

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