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

2. What incident brought the 101st soldiers back on a Thursday?
(a) Terrence and Jefferson being kicked while Guardsmen watched.
(b) Gloria being pushed downstairs.
(c) Melba having acid thrown into her face.
(d) Thelma being cut with a switchblade.

3. Who did Melba vow to forever remember in her prayers?
(a) Her guide.
(b) Mrs. Huckaby.
(c) Jesse Matthews.
(d) Gene Smith.

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

5. Why said, "You hit back every day you get through"?
(a) Grandma.
(b) Mrs. Bates.
(c) Melba's mother.
(d) Mrs. Huckaby.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which reporter was beaten and shown in a picture with a white man riding on him piggyback?

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

3. How did the Little Rock Nine get out of the school when the mob threatens to overrun the school?

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

5. Who looked like "spectators at a sports event" when Melba arrives at school on October 1?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Little Rock's shopping district.

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

5. What was the downside to newspapers running articles about the Little Rock Nine?

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

7. What was the "heel-walking committee"?

8. Who participated in the heart-to-heart talk with hard core school segregationists? Did the talk help?

9. Melba felts lonely at school. Why?

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

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