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

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

3. In Melba's opinion, who looked like a caramel-colored James Darin?
(a) Johnny Mathis.
(b) Nat King Cole.
(c) Vince.
(d) Terrence.

4. 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) Thurgood Marshall.
(b) Ralph Abernathy.
(c) Clara Luper.
(d) Mary Thomason.

5. Who sends a telegram to the governor and expects full cooperation for integration?
(a) President Eisenhower.
(b) Thurgood Marshall.
(c) Director of the FBI.
(d) Bill Clinton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What places did Melba's father talk about where African American men were treated equal?

2. Who came looking for Melba at Central High with a red face and a frown?

3. Who was the Arkansas president of the NAACP in 1957?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Melba want to meet Governor Faubus face to face?

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

4. What happened when Melba called her friend Marsha on a Friday night?

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

6. Who came to the Pattillo house the day after the first attempt at integration?

7. What was Melba's disguise and why did she think she needed it for the wrestling match? Was she successful?

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

9. How did the Little Rock Nine get to school on their second attempt?

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

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