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

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

3. Where is Claudette born?
(a) Mobile.
(b) Shreveport.
(c) Pensacola.
(d) Birmingham.

4. What did this practice mentioned in question 22 violate?
(a) The city bus law.
(b) The county bus law.
(c) The State bus law.
(d) The Federal bus law.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the boys do when Claudette and the white boys touched each other's hands?

2. What sometimes happened if a black person stood up to a driver?

3. Who is Delphine?

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

5. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?

(see the answer key)

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