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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 idea did Melba become obsessed with in late January of the school year?
(a) Beating up on Andy and his friends.
(b) Being dead.
(c) Wearing grown up clothing.
(d) Leaving Central High School.

2. What did Melba's old friend Marsha call Melba?
(a) Miss High and Mighty.
(b) The chosen one.
(c) The traitor.
(d) The troublemaker.

3. How did the Pattillos escape Andy and his friends at the store?
(a) Walking with three large sisters of the church.
(b) By running faster than the boys.
(c) With a police escort.
(d) By sneaking away.

4. What did Grandma India nickname the two white men that watch their house?
(a) Drib and drab.
(b) The Marx Brothers.
(c) Abbott and Costello.
(d) Mutt and Jeff.

5. What did Vince give Melba for her birthday?
(a) A record album.
(b) Flowers.
(c) A bracelet.
(d) Tiny gold hoop earrings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told the mobs in Little Rock that they must cease and desist?

2. Melba decided to "claim Saturday for her own" after her first week of school. What time did she rise?

3. Who were the federalized soldiers that inadequately protected the nine children?

4. Who filed a civil suit against the NAACP in Arkansas?

5. Why said, "You hit back every day you get through"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was President Eisenhower's response regarding Central High school integration and the mobs in Little Rock?

2. Why did the Little Rock Nine and their families want to meet with School Superintendent Blossom, and what was the result of that meeting?

3. Who was Gene Smith and what impression did Melba have of him?

4. At the end of 1957, the Associated Press compiled their top stories of the year. What was the number one story and where did the story about Little Rock integration fall?

5. What were the changes that Melba observed in her fellow students integrating into the school as the harassment continued?

6. Why didn't anyone but Vince show up at Melba's Sixteenth birthday party?

7. What were some of the special "days" that the segregationists came up with to harass the Little Rock Nine?

8. One day in October the attacks against the students were so severe that what happened?

9. What were some of the threats that the Little Rock Nine faced in January?

10. What happened at the official Thanksgiving dinner at Mrs. Bates' home?

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