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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did two Montgomery police come on board the bus?
(a) To talk to Claudette and convince her to move.
(b) To arrest Claudette.
(c) They did not come on board the bus.
(d) To talk to the bus driver and tell him he was breaking the law.

2. What happened to Brooks in 1952?
(a) He was shot by a police officer for standing up to a driver.
(b) He was hit by a black woman who refused to give up her seat.
(c) She was fined.
(d) She was barred from the buses for the rest of her life and had to quit her job.

3. What did Claudette have time to do when she was alone in Birmingham?
(a) Get to know her biological parents.
(b) Find a boyfriend.
(c) Contemplate her life.
(d) Study more in school.

4. What happened in Montgomery if the seats were full and a white got on the bus?
(a) The bus driver would move the black section back a row on the left so the white did not have to sit near a black.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The bus driver would move the black section back a row on the right so the white did not have to sit near a black.
(d) A black had to give up his/her seat.

5. Who agreed with Claudette's mother?
(a) The white boys' mother.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) No one.
(d) Claudette's grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?

2. For what was she known as far as the NAACP?

3. Why was it hard for Claudette to be popular at Booker T. Washington High?

4. What were the professional jobs blacks were allowed?

5. Why did Claudette feel hurt?

(see the answer key)

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