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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Parks permitted to do?
(a) Go home and promise to come back to court.
(b) Sit in the reception room instead of a jail cell.
(c) Leave jail the next morning for an hour to get breakfast.
(d) Call her family.

2. How old was Parks at the time of her arrest?
(a) Early 40s.
(b) Early 70s.
(c) Early 20s.
(d) Late 60s.

3. Why was it hard for Claudette to be popular at Booker T. Washington High?
(a) Her parents were well to do and her friends were envious.
(b) She was actually very popular.
(c) She was light skinned and had straight hair.
(d) She was so smart.

4. What was Claudette's involvement in the NAACP?
(a) She attended the meetings sporadically.
(b) She was elected the President.
(c) She became the youth secretary.
(d) She quit as she felt betrayed by them.

5. What did 75 percent of the black men do in the 1950s?
(a) Unskilled labor.
(b) Farm.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They were able to get decent educations and work as clerical and service persons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Reverend Johnson do?

2. How did King characterize the kind of justice they seek?

3. Why did blacks depend upon buses?

4. To what is Fred Gray committed?

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

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