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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 Supreme Court do in 1954?
(a) Upheld Reeves' sentence.
(b) Threw out Reeves' case.
(c) Declined to consider it.
(d) Upheld Reeves' conviction.

2. What did Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka do?
(a) Upheld segregation in public schools.
(b) Nothing as it was quickly overturned.
(c) Created the separate but equal ruling.
(d) Outlawed segregation in public schools.

3. 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.

4. What happens to Delphine in the summer of 1952?
(a) She contracted mumps.
(b) She is arrested.
(c) She contracted polio.
(d) She went back to stay with her biological parents.

5. What did the boys do when Claudette and the white boys touched each other's hands?
(a) Yell at Claudette.
(b) Slap Claudette.
(c) Laugh.
(d) Push Claudette down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened in Montgomery if the seats were full and a white got on the bus?

2. About what was Claudette curious?

3. What is one thing blacks and whites could not do together?

4. In what decades are her childhood years?

5. Where does Claudette go to live when she is a baby?

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