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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. How did some of the white people insult Claudette?
(a) By calling her "Coot."
(b) She doesn't remember being insulted by whites.
(c) By calling her "Nig."
(d) By making her walk ten feet behind them.

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

3. About what was Claudette curious?
(a) If her white friends thought she was inferior.
(b) What it would be like to be a white person.
(c) Why God created people of different races.
(d) How it came to be that whites had so much power over blacks.

4. Who agreed with Claudette's mother?
(a) The white boys' mother.
(b) Claudette's grandmother.
(c) The sheriff.
(d) No one.

5. When was Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka ruled upon?
(a) May 17, 1954.
(b) August 27, 1958.
(c) May 17, 1959.
(d) August 27, 1951.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Delphine?

2. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?

3. To what point of view does the narration change from the opening of the book?

4. Why did blacks depend upon buses?

5. In 1950, what percent of black women were maids for white families?

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