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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 is one thing Claudette spent a lot of time doing?
(a) Track and field events.
(b) Cleaning white people's homes.
(c) Writing her parents.
(d) Praying.

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

3. Who became involved in Jeremiah Reeves' case?
(a) The NAACP.
(b) The Anti-defamation League.
(c) Amnesty International.
(d) No one as they were too scared.

4. In 1950, what percent of black women were maids for white families?
(a) 12.
(b) 60.
(c) 89.
(d) 22.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did 75 percent of the black men do in the 1950s?

2. When did Claudette move to the suburbs in Montgomery?

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

4. Who commanded the buses in Montgomery?

5. What did some of the white men on the buses carry?

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