Q 01/05

In Warriors Don't Cry, which food lands on two boys in the cafeteria clash that gets Melba's close friend suspended?

A) Soup

B) Chili

C) Gravy

D) Grits

Answer · why

B) Chili

Chili from a dropped lunch tray earned the girl a six-day suspension, and a second clash weeks later made her the only one of the nine to be expelled.

Q 02/05

Which president sent federal troops to escort Melba Pattillo and the Little Rock Nine into Central High in 1957?

A) Franklin D. Roosevelt

B) Lyndon B. Johnson

C) Harry S. Truman

D) Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer · why

D) Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower called the mob's actions disgraceful and ordered in 1,200 soldiers; in the memoir, federal officials bring his promise of protect...

Q 03/05

In Warriors Don't Cry, what does a boy throw into Melba's eyes in a Central High hallway, nearly blinding her?

A) Acid

B) Ink

C) Bleach

D) Paint

Answer · why

A) Acid

Acid would have cost Melba her sight if her Army bodyguard had not flushed her eyes with water straight away.

Q 04/05

Melba Pattillo Beals, author of Warriors Don't Cry, was born on the very day of which 1941 event?

A) Siege of Leningrad

B) Sinking of the Bismarck

C) Attack on Pearl Harbor

D) Invasion of the Soviet Union

Answer · why

C) Attack on Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl Harbor filled the news the day she was born, and a forceps injury to her scalp nearly killed her when nurses neglected the care a ...

Q 05/05

Which civil rights leader sat in the audience when Central High graduated its first Black student in May 1958?

A) Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

B) Martin Luther King Jr.

C) Ralph Abernathy

D) A. Philip Randolph

Answer · why

B) Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. sat with the graduate's family and went almost unnoticed; he was in the state to give a college commencement speech in Pine Blu...