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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Melba's grandma using jelly beans for?
(a) As a reward to Melba.
(b) To put eyes on gingerbread men.
(c) To feed the birds.
(d) To bribe Conrad.

2. What was Melba considering trading to her brother for Christmas?
(a) Her bedroom.
(b) Her bicycle.
(c) Her Elvis record.
(d) Use of her stereo.

3. At Christmas, how many integration lawsuits were pending in Arkansas?
(a) 13.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

4. What color was the hair of the Arkansas NAACP attorney?
(a) Black.
(b) Brown.
(c) Auburn.
(d) Gray.

5. What was Melba's class after gym class?
(a) French.
(b) Math.
(c) Shorthand.
(d) English.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the first day that the Little Rock Nine attended Central High School classes, the crowd outside the school outnumbered the police by about how much?

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

3. What did Melba hear when the 101st soldiers escorted the nine students inside Central High School?

4. Who held a Christmas party on the same night as Melba's sixteenth birthday party?

5. Melba decided to "claim Saturday for her own" after her first week of school. What time did she rise?

(see the answer key)

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