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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. How does Judy react to her parents' plan for her to continue school?
(a) She is very upset.
(b) She does not really care one way or another.
(c) She threatens to run away from home.
(d) She is delighted.

2. What does Judy tell Marlee about how she is doing in Pine Bluff in her letters to Marlee?
(a) She says she hates it there.
(b) She says she made the basketball team.
(c) She says she has tons of new friends.
(d) She says she loves it there.

3. What does Marlee's mother tell Marlee's father she is afraid that school integration will lead to?
(a) Disease.
(b) Crime.
(c) Race-mixing.
(d) Violence in the schools.

4. What prop does Marlee use in her presentation on the Quapaw Indians?
(a) A peach pit.
(b) A string of shells.
(c) An apple seed.
(d) A blade of grass.

5. What is the phrase that was used for the first Negro students to attend a white public school in Little Rock?
(a) The Arkansas Students.
(b) The Sixteen Soldiers.
(c) The Little Rock Nine.
(d) The Seven Lions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group does Ms. Winthrop introduce Marlee to?

2. What does Marlee like about Mr. Harding on the first day of school?

3. What is the name of the Negro movie theater where Marlee meets Liz?

4. In Chapter 1, what does Marlee attempt to do that she fails at while at the pool?

5. Who does Marlee meet at the Negro cinema who vouches for her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Betty Jean tell Marlee about some of the reasons Negroes try to pass as white?

2. Why is Marlee disappointed with JT's behavior on the first day she meets him to help him with his math homework?

3. How does Marlee's father react when Marlee's mother tells him she has accepted a position to teach at a private school?

4. What does Ms. Taylor tell Marlee about the reason that Liz is not at school on the day they are supposed to present their history project?

5. What does Marlee's fear of jumping off the high dive in Chapter 1 represent?

6. What is Marlee's first impression of Liz when she meets her on the first day of school?

7. Why does Marlee's father refuse to let Judy go to a private school?

8. How does Liz act when the colored students walk into the library where she and Marlee are preparing for their history project?

9. What does Marlee notice about the scientists she sees on T.V. who are involved in space exploration?

10. How do Marlee's parents react when they find out that Liz had been passing?

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