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

2. Who was Virgil Blossom?
(a) Chairman of the School Board.
(b) U.S. District Attorney.
(c) The Little Rock school superintendent.
(d) Little Rock Mayor.

3. Who told Melba that she wasn't a quitter?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Thurgood Marshall.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Mrs. Bates.

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

5. What was Melba's grandmother's first name?
(a) Lois.
(b) Unknown.
(c) India.
(d) Anette.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did the author meet on the 30th anniversary of Little Rock integration that her brother referred to as "good people"?

2. Which of Melba's classes did she describe as a zoo?

3. What was the "sole voice" of Little Rock's African American community in 1957?

4. What was Melba worried would be swept under the carpet for her "grandchildren to retrieve"?

5. Whose eyes were hidden by dark glasses, which were probably hiding the fear she felt on the first day at Central High School?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Marissa?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why was Grandma India hanging a picture on the wall above the television?

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