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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What record albums did Melba play for romantic daydreaming?
2. Who said, "Are you under lock and key the way I am"?
3. How many students were chosen to integrate the Little Rock High School?
4. Whose eyes were hidden by dark glasses, which were probably hiding the fear she felt on the first day at Central High School?
5. Approximately how many white students attended Central High during the year that Melba attended?
Short Essay Questions
1. When the author arrived for the 1987 reunion, what was the most astounding evidence that things had changed?
2. What did Grandma India do and say to Melba after the attempted rape?
3. Who came to the Pattillo house the day after the first attempt at integration?
4. How did the Little Rock Nine get to school on their second attempt?
5. What was Melba's first impression of the inside of Central High School?
6. What did Melba do with her time on the first day of school after she was forced to return home?
7. What happened when Melba's dad visited after her first visit to school. Explain what happened.
8. Describe the other girls who integrated into Central High School with Melba.
9. Why was Grandma India hanging a picture on the wall above the television?
10. Describe Grandma India's bedroom.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The white leaders of Little Rock refer to Little Rock people as "forward-thinking" and a place where white and African American people got along. These leaders thought that racism was not a problem because there hadn't been a lynching in the state for almost ten years. Melba believed the Little Rock of her youth was anything but progressive. Why did she say this? Why was there such a dichotomy in what people believed about 1950s race relations in Little Rock?
Essay Topic 2
Melba wrote in her diary, "Please, God, let me learn how to stop being a warrior. Sometimes I just need to be a girl." Discuss what you think she meant by this.
Essay Topic 3
Describe how Melba felt when the 101st Airborne Division arrived in Little Rock. Be certain to provide examples and explain what their presence meant to her.
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