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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3, Jim Crow and the Detested Number Ten, Coot,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the white boys want of Claudette?
(a) To see her hands.
(b) To steal her dog.
(c) To steal her coat.
(d) To take her to the movies.

2. What made Claudette angry when she would go to downtown Montgomery?
(a) That she could not try on clothes.
(b) That there were racists signs in store windows.
(c) That the buses the blacks wrote were constantly breaking down.
(d) That the buses were only air conditioned in the white sections.

3. How old was Claudette when she learned about what happens when blacks act out against whites?
(a) 6.
(b) 12.
(c) 4.
(d) 18.

4. Who was Miss Geraldine Nesbitt?
(a) Claudette's best friend.
(b) The principal of Washington High.
(c) One of Claudette's teachers.
(d) The lawyer defending Reeves.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Claudette want to do after reading about Harriet Tubman?

2. Why did the person do that to Claudette?

3. What did Claudette feel about the blacks' self image?

4. What is one thing Claudette spent a lot of time doing?

5. When was Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka ruled upon?

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