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

2. Where does Claudette go to live when she is a baby?
(a) With a great aunt and uncle.
(b) With her mother's sister.
(c) With her father's sister.
(d) With her grandmother.

3. Who commanded the buses in Montgomery?
(a) Tough men.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) The KKK.
(d) The police.

4. What did Claudette want to do after reading about Harriet Tubman?
(a) Help desegregate the Northern schools where it was possible to do so.
(b) Move to Africa.
(c) Liberate her people.
(d) Pass as white.

5. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?
(a) Killing a police officer.
(b) Raping a black woman.
(c) Raping a white woman.
(d) Killing a black child.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decades are her childhood years?

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

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

4. How much did blacks make in relation to whites?

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

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