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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 Melba hear when the 101st soldiers escorted the nine students inside Central High School?
(a) Gunfire.
(b) Boots clicking on the stone.
(c) Silence.
(d) Chants of the mob.

2. What song did Minnijean want to sing in the talent show?
(a) Donna.
(b) Tammy.
(c) Peggy Sue.
(d) Matilda.

3. Who was invited to speak at the school's chapel?
(a) Ernie.
(b) Thurgood Marshall.
(c) Melba.
(d) Governor Faubus.

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

5. Who did Melba compared to "cats in sunlight"?
(a) White segregationists.
(b) Central High School staff.
(c) Arkansas National Guard.
(d) Little Rock police.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Melba vow to forever remember in her prayers?

2. What did Melba recite to herself to keep her focus?

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

4. What did Vince bring to Melba for their date?

5. Who yelled to Melba, "Now you've had your lesson. You don't have to go back to that awful school anymore"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Melba felts lonely at school. Why?

4. Describe Mrs. Pickwick.

5. What led to Minnijean's suspension?

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

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

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

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

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

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