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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 were the girls doing in Melba's first gym class?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Volleyball.
(c) Tumbling.
(d) Calisthenics.

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

3. Who was the Arkansas president of the NAACP in 1957?
(a) Wiley Branton.
(b) Ed Claxton.
(c) Marjorie Williams.
(d) Daisy Bates.

4. After Judge Davis ordered school integration to continue, what day and time did Governor Faubus remove the National Guard from Central High School?
(a) Monday at 7:10 a.m.
(b) Sunday at 3:15 p.m.
(c) Friday evening, 6:20 p.m.
(d) Saturday at noon.

5. What was supposed to be the first day of school for Melba in 1957?
(a) September 16.
(b) August 31.
(c) September 5.
(d) September 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of car did Melba's mother drive in 1957?

2. Who was the first white person to call Melba "Miss Pattillo"?

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

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. After two days stuck at home and not being allowed to go to school, what does Melba vow to do?

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

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

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

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

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