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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 was the usual hot lunch on Tuesdays in the school cafeteria?
(a) Chili.
(b) Spaghetti.
(c) Chicken.
(d) Chicken noodle soup.

2. Whose songs did Melba once want to sing at talent shows?
(a) Dinah Washington.
(b) Lena Horne.
(c) Diana Ross.
(d) Rosemary Clooney.

3. What group of government officials was pressing for the removal of the 101st from Central High School?
(a) Southern governors.
(b) Southern U.S. Senators.
(c) Arkansas state legislature.
(d) Arkansas mayors.

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

5. Who told the Little Rock Nine to "complain only when something is injurious to your health, or life-threatening"?
(a) School officials.
(b) National Guard.
(c) NAACP officials.
(d) The police.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Grandma India do when Melba stayed home sick from school in October?

2. What was Melba considering trading to her brother for Christmas?

3. Who offered a reward for getting the remaining Little Rock Nine expelled?

4. Who attacked Melba at the pep rally?

5. Which newspaper did the segregationists tell businesses to stop advertising in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Grandma India respond to Melba's wish to be dead?

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

3. What damage did the white mob do after Melba and the other students left the school after their first day inside?

4. Why wasn't Melba allowed to go to a New Years' Party with Vince?

5. What items dear to Melba did she decide to give away at Thanksgiving?

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

7. What happened to Melba when saluting the flag?

8. 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?

9. What led to Minnijean's suspension?

10. Describe Mrs. Pickwick.

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