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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 did the judge do?
(a) Withheld ajudication so Claudette would not have a criminal record.
(b) Held the bus driver in contempt for lying.
(c) Put Claudette on probation.
(d) Held the police in contempt for false arrest.

2. What happened to Brooks in 1952?
(a) She was barred from the buses for the rest of her life and had to quit her job.
(b) He was hit by a black woman who refused to give up her seat.
(c) He was shot by a police officer for standing up to a driver.
(d) She was fined.

3. What changed as the bus moved onward on its route?
(a) The bus did not stop at her stop.
(b) The police stopped the bus looking for a fugitive.
(c) The bus filled and a white woman was standing.
(d) The bus broke down in an all-white neighborhood.

4. What did Robinson's group threaten?
(a) Violence against bus drivers.
(b) A boycott of all businesses.
(c) A bus boycott.
(d) A riot.

5. What happened at the next stop the bus made?
(a) Claudette's mom is waiting for her.
(b) Claudette gets up to leave but the young white man prevents her.
(c) The bus hits a telephone pole.
(d) A policeman is waiting to arrest Claudette.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Claudette say about sex?

2. Why were many worried about making Claudette the face of the movement?

3. In what state does Claudette Colvin grow up?

4. Where did blacks have to sit on the bus?

5. What did people say about Claudette when she left Montgomery?

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