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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 idea did Melba become obsessed with in late January of the school year?

2. What was the evening newspaper that the Pattillos sometimes read?

3. What did Vince give Melba for her birthday?

4. What did Melba's old friend Marsha call Melba?

5. What song did Minnijean want to sing in the talent show?

Short Essay Questions

1. Melba felts lonely at school. Why?

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

3. What happened to Melba when saluting the flag?

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

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

6. Describe Mrs. Pickwick.

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

8. Why did Grandma India want Melba to read about Gandhi?

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A reporter for the New York Post asked Melba if she would like to be white. Discuss why this question made her angry, and why she chose to answer as she did.

Essay Topic 2

Many of the students presented in "Warriors Don't Cry" grew up in a hurry. Choose one person from the book and write about his or her loss of innocence.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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