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Warriors Dont Cry Questions

Directions: Answer the reading questions in COMPLETE sentences
making sure to answer the question fully, provide evidence, and
citations (when needed). The answers you provide MUST be YOUR
OWN thoughts and ideas and copying, doing the assignment with a
friend, or using any secondary source (i.e. not your book or brain)
without my permission will be considered cheating and you will receive
no credit for the assignment.
Introduction-end of Chapter 1
xi-11
1. At what age did the author start writing this book?

2. What is Pearl Harbor Day?

3. Why does her grandmother say God saved her when she was
dying as an infant?

4. What does Melba wish for at the end of the chapter?

Chapter 2
12-23
1. Why does Melbas teacher dismiss the class early and tell them
to walk home in groups quickly?

2. What happens to Melba in the field on her way home?

3. What is the NAACP?

4. Where do Melba, her mother, and her grandmother go to visit

Melbas uncle and what is surprising to Melba about this place?

5. How many other people will be part of the integration?

Chapter 3
24-32
1. How many end up being a part of the integration movement?

2. How does Melbas grandmother react to the threats of violence

against the family?

3. What are the adults instructed to do while the children go to

school?

4. Who will accompany the children to the school?

5. What does Melbas mother Mother Lois think about her

decision to be part of the integration?

Chapter 4
33-46
1. What happens to Melba and the others when they try to go to the
Central the first day?

2. What does Melbas mother tell her not to do?

3. Why does her grandmother say that warriors dont cry?

4. Who calls for Melba and what does this person say?

Chapter 5
47-60
1. What does Melba vow to be in her diary?

2. Where does Melba want to go that her mother and grandmother

decide she cant?

3. What two things make Melba happy on Sunday?

4. Who does Melba realize will protect her?

5. What do the press call Melba and her friends?

6. Today was the first time Melba felt..

7. Define incendiary (cite your source!)

Chapter 6
61-68
1. Where does Melba go in this chapter and why?

2. Which two students out of the nine end up testifying?

3. Why does Melba stop listening?

4. What is the judges decision?

Chapter 7
69-89
1. What is different about this day?

2. How do the white students react to the nine?

3. What happens when Melba gets to class?

4. Why is Melba pulled out of shorthand class?

5. Why were the nine able to slip past the mob that morning?

6. In her article, what does Melba say gives her the strength to
continue on after the insults and threats?

Chapter 8
90-106
1. Who rings the doorbell in the middle of the night?

2. What is the soldiers name who is protecting Melba?

3. Why do the white girls at lunch say many people dont reach
out to the nine or stay silent?

4. Why does Melba say the president has sent in the troops?

Chapter 9
107-113
1. What does Danny explain his job is?

2. What almost hits Melba on the stairs?

3. Where does Danny tell her she has to go alone?

4. What is Dannys response to what happens to Melba at the pep

rally?

Chapter 10
114-123
1. What does Melba speak up about?

2. What new thing happens for Melba Sunday morning?

3. What happens to Melba in the bathroom?

4. What does the optometrist say about what happened to her?

Chapter 11
124-140
1. What does Minnijean want to do?

2. What happens when Minnijean tries to make her wish into a

reality?

3. What does Melba say at the Thanksgiving with the Little Rock
Nine that she wishes she hadnt?

4. What does the newspaper incorrectly report?

Chapter 12
140-150
1. What happens on Melbas sixteenth birthday?

2. What happens to Minnijean in the cafeteria?

Chapter 13
151-157
1. What event do Melba and her mother attend and how does it
affect her?

2. What does Melbas father give her and Conrad?

3. What do you think of Melbas resolutions? What do they say

about her?

Chapter 14
157-173
1. What does Melba wish?

2. How does her grandmother respond to her wish?

3. What new tradition does Melba start with her grandmother and
why?

4. What does her grandmother suggest when she gets egged?

5. What happens to Minnijean?

6. Who is Link and what does he do?

Chapter 15
174-182
1. How does Melba return Links car?

2. How does Link act around his school friends?

Chapter 16
183-194
1. What does Link tell Melba in his phone call?

2. Who knows about what Link tells Melba?

3. What change is there in the teachers?

4. What special tradition does Melbas family have for Easter?

5. Name one of Melbas sins:

6. What does Melba stare at during homeroom and why?

Chapter 17
195-203
1. What do you think is the cause of Mrs. Huckabees change in
behavior?

2. What does Link ask Melba to do?

3. What does Link bring into the house?

4. What does Melba do to help Link?

5. Why does Melba worry about Mother Lois?

6. What does Mother Lois tell Melba?

Chapter 18
2041. What steps does Mother Lois take?

2. What happens at graduation?

3. What does Link want Melba to do?

4. Where does Melba spend the school year of 1958-1959?

5. What devastating thing also happens to Melba this year?

6. What does Melba say taught her the meaning of equality?

7. Who were the two black students who finally graduated from
Central after Ernie?

8. What profession does Melba enter into?

9. What does Melba say the experience at Little Rock taught her?

10.

What has Melbas experience taught you?