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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Police Commissioner do?
(a) Agreed to lessen the charges.
(b) Refused to drop the charges.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Agreed to drop the charges.

2. How many charges did Claudette face?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

3. Who did Claudette call "mom and dad"?
(a) Her great aunt and uncle.
(b) Her maternal aunt and uncle.
(c) Her grandparents.
(d) Her biological parents.

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) A black had to give up his/her seat.
(c) Nothing.
(d) 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.

5. What does the narrator say controlled Claudette's life?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Jim Crow.
(c) The school she attends.
(d) Her neighborhood boundaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Claudette considered a political liability at this time?

2. What did 75 percent of the black men do in the 1950s?

3. What happened when Claudette rode with the police?

4. What did Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka do?

5. What did the Montgomery Circuit Court adjudicate about Claudette's conviction?

(see the answer key)

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