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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 idea did Melba become obsessed with in late January of the school year?
(a) Beating up on Andy and his friends.
(b) Being dead.
(c) Leaving Central High School.
(d) Wearing grown up clothing.

2. What did Vince give Melba for her birthday?
(a) A record album.
(b) A bracelet.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Tiny gold hoop earrings.

3. How many New Year's Resolutions did Melba make?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

4. Why said, "You hit back every day you get through"?
(a) Mrs. Huckaby.
(b) Grandma.
(c) Melba's mother.
(d) Mrs. Bates.

5. Why said, "I'm angry enough to hunt bear without my shotgun"?
(a) The father of a white student.
(b) Danny.
(c) Superintendent Blossom.
(d) The father of one of the Little Rock Nine.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the professional women's sorority that held a Christmas party for the Little Rock Nine?

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

4. Who attacked Melba at the pep rally?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Melba felts lonely at school. Why?

2. How did Grandma India respond to Melba's wish to be dead?

3. Describe Mrs. Pickwick.

4. What happened at the official Thanksgiving dinner at Mrs. Bates' home?

5. Who was Gene Smith and what impression did Melba have of him?

6. What happened when acid is thrown in Melba's eyes? What was the result?

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

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

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

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

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