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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Claudette want to do after studying the constitution?
(a) Rebel.
(b) Move to another country which actually upheld its constitution.
(c) Write an essay about bus riding rights.
(d) Become a lawyer.

2. Why were many worried about making Claudette the face of the movement?
(a) She was rebellious.
(b) She was not a convicted criminal.
(c) She was so light skinned.
(d) She was so young.

3. How does Claudette's mother learn about where she is?
(a) Claudette called her and asked for her to come pick her up.
(b) The police called.
(c) School friends on the bus told her.
(d) A lawyer came and got her mother.

4. To what is Fred Gray committed?
(a) Keeping the sitution about Claudette from becoming a circus.
(b) Ending segregation.
(c) Winning a prison sentence against Claudette.
(d) Upholding the system of segregation.

5. Who is Claudette Colvin?
(a) The white girl whose best friend was black.
(b) The narrator at the opening of the book.
(c) The author of the book.
(d) The antagonist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Delphine?

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

3. Who is Jo Ann Robinson?

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

5. What does the narrator say controlled Claudette's life?

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