A Mighty Long Way Chapters 1-5

where does Carrlotta Live?

• Kansas City, MO

• Little Rock, AK

• Money, MS

• St. Louis,MO

Why would the Little Rock school board create the Blossom Plan in response to Brown v. Board of Education?

• To keep Black Students out of Dunbar High School.

• To ensure that Black students would be able to attend Central High School.

• To keep schools segregated as much as possible for as long as legally possible.

• To keep poor students from attending Central High School.

How did her visit to New York affect Carlotta?

• Separate but Equal was widely accepted in New York.

• Carlotta had to ride on the back of the bus in New York.

• Carlotta saw that she could live more freely and even made a friend who was white.

• New York was where Caroltta was first exposed to racism.

How does Carlotta "play by the rules" even with her summer softball friends?

• She only played with the kids from her neighborhood.

• She only played with her white softball friends at night.

• She would not play with kids from Central High School.

• She doesn't knock on white players' door to ask if they can play, she waits in the street for a parent to notice her.

How do the white kids "play by the rules" with Carlotta and her softball friends?

• They did not knock on the doors of the black players but waited in the street for a parent to notice them.

• They only played with the black players at night.

• They did not play with the kids that attended Dunbar.

• They only played with kids from their neighborhood.

In junior high, what is the only part of Carlotta's life that is NOT strictly segregated?

• Her school has "hand-me-down" textbooks and inferior equipment and facilities

• The neighborhood softball field.

• Dunbar Junior High School

• The Little Rock Community Center.

What did Carlotta find out in the meeting before she stared school? Choose the best TWO answers

• She would only be allowed to take night classes.

• She would be called names but could not retaliate.

• She would have to leave immediately after school, she could not participate in sports, go to dances or games.

• She was not allowed to eat in the school cafeteria.

What was the court case that ordered the integration of schools?

• Plessy V Ferguson

• Brown V the Board of Education

• Marshall V Blossom

• Bates V Little Rock Board of Education

What is the name of the new school that was being built to discourage black students from attending Central High School?

• Horace Mann

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Thurgood Marshall

• Daisy Bates

On Carlotta's first day of school at Central, what was the role of the National Guard? Why was this surprising?

• To keep the black and white students from fighting. She thought the students would welcome her.

• To keep the black students safe at Central High School. Carlotta thought they were there to protect her.

• To keep black students out of Central High School. Carlotta thought the governor would follow the Supreme Court ruling.

• To make sure the black students were not carrying knives or weapons. She thought they were there to keep out the reporters.