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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. Who attacked Melba at the pep rally?

2. How did the Pattillos escape Andy and his friends at the store?

3. What group of government officials was pressing for the removal of the 101st from Central High School?

4. What music did Melba envision being played for her sixteenth birthday?

5. What did Melba call the bad boys who copied their hairstyle from James Dean and Elvis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Melba when saluting the flag?

2. Describe Mrs. Pickwick.

3. Why did the Little Rock Nine and their families want to meet with School Superintendent Blossom, and what was the result of that meeting?

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

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

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

7. What were the changes that Melba observed in her fellow students integrating into the school as the harassment continued?

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

9. Melba felts lonely at school. Why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter Nine, Melba wrote in her diary that it was her turn to carry the banner. What does this mean and what did it mean about the person Melba was becoming.?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Melba's relationship with her father. Be certain to include how their relationship changed as she grew older and his role in her integrating into the high school.

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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