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The Ernest Green Story
1.
What is the name of the all-black high school in Little Rock?
2.
Do you have any idea what the name of the dance is that the
students are doing at the beginning of the movie?
3.
How many years had passed since integration was ordered before the
students volunteered to go to Little Rock Central High School?
4.
Who is the President of the United States at this time?
5.
For what institution does Ernest’s grandfather work? What does he
wear to work instead of a uniform?
6.
What does Scott mumble at the dinner table after Ernest announces
that he wants to go to Central?
7.
Who meets Mrs. Dates and the students at the top of the stairs at
the state house?
8.
What are a couple of the restrictions that are placed on the
transferring students?
9.
What comes through Mrs. Bates window immediately after she offers
Ernest homemade apple pie?
10.
Dr. Martin Luther King patterned his ideas for social reform after
whom?
11.
What does Ernest’s friend give him after the governor’s
announcement that the National Guard will meet the entering
students at school?
12.
Why does Elizabeth go to the school by herself?
13.
“2-4-6-8. We don’t want to ____________________________.”
14.
How would you describe the physics teacher? (no profanity,
please!)
15.
Who finally announces that the federal troops will see to it that
the black students are admitted to the high school?
16.
Who is the governor of Arkansas at this time?
17.
What happens to Thelma as she walks down the stairs?
18.
What happens to Ernie’s physics notes?
19.
What has Ernie’s mom been “holding back”?
20.
Where does Ernie find his brother, Scott, late one night?
21.
What is Ernie’s idea of “creative non-violence” in the library?
22.
Where is Minnijean headed after she is expelled from the high
school?
23.
What does the little sign say inside Ernest’s locker door?
24.
What causes Ernest to finally “break” and chase a boy into the
auditorium?
25.
What does Marcus confess to Ernie as they go home after the
Valentines Dance?
26.
Who will attend Ernie’s graduation, besides his family?
27.
Just before the ceremony, what does Mr. Mathus, the principal,
suggest to Ernie?
28.
Which person depicted in the film did you admire the most? Why?
29.
Which one did you dislike the most? Why?
30.
What struck you as being the greatest difference between high
school in the late 1950’s and the high school you attend today?