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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 were the professional jobs blacks were allowed?
(a) Lawyer or dentist.
(b) Doctor or pastor.
(c) Doctor or dentist.
(d) Pastor or teacher.

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

3. Why did blacks depend upon buses?
(a) To visit friends and family.
(b) They did not depend on the buses.
(c) To get to the grocery store.
(d) To reach their white employers.

4. What did Robinson collect?
(a) Money for Claudette's family to move North.
(b) Stories of abuse by bus drivers.
(c) Stories of legal triumphs for black rights.
(d) Money for Claudette's defense.

5. What is one thing blacks and whites could not do together?
(a) Play on the same sports team.
(b) Watch a sports event in a stadium.
(c) Ride on the same train.
(d) Shop at the same farmer's market.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were some people angry at Claudette?

2. In what decades are her childhood years?

3. What did everyone lose interest in except Gray?

4. How old was Claudette when she learned about what happens when blacks act out against whites?

5. Of what group is Jo Ann Robinson a member?

(see the answer key)

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