Characters
Who was the main character of the book?
Melba Pattillo Beals
What is the name of the high school that the narrator and her friends integrated into?
Little Rock Central High School
What is the merry-go-round?
The narrator was not allowed to ride this when she was 5.
What the narrator thought with constand pressure, " it felt as though we always had a _____ pressed aganist the back of our necks"
"White foot"
What was the name of the main character's grandma?
Grandma India
Where is the city of the highschool the narrator and her friends integrate into?
Little Rock, Arkansas.
What is the Brown v. Board of Education?
The Supreme Court paved the way for the narrator and her friends to enter Central High
The two words that the narrators body guard have to her to encourage her about Central High?
"Warriors survive"
Who was the white student who secretly helped the main character avoid attacks?
Link
What is the place the narrator visits where she realises freedom and equality are missing in her hometown?
Cincinnati, Ohio
What is a lynch mob
The people who visit the narrator's family after her first day of Central High?
The chant segregationist would say after driving people out of school.
"2,4,6,8 we ain't gonna integrate."
What was the name of the first group of kids to integrate the high school?
The Little Rock Nine
What is the name of the narrator's grandma's home that she calls her "warrior hideout"?
Her house in Little Rock
What is a torture chamber?
The narrator called it the auditorium because of the torture she would face from it.
The narrator's grandma would tell her to say this when she wanted to fight back, not with violence, but by acting with courage.
"Thank you"