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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. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?
(a) Killing a black child.
(b) Raping a white woman.
(c) Raping a black woman.
(d) Killing a police officer.

2. Where does Claudette go to live when she is a baby?
(a) With her mother's sister.
(b) With a great aunt and uncle.
(c) With her grandmother.
(d) With her father's sister.

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

4. What did Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka do?
(a) Created the separate but equal ruling.
(b) Upheld segregation in public schools.
(c) Outlawed segregation in public schools.
(d) Nothing as it was quickly overturned.

5. When did Claudette move to the suburbs in Montgomery?
(a) At age 5.
(b) At age 4.
(c) At age 8.
(d) At age 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Delphine?

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

3. What happens to Delphine in the summer of 1952?

4. Who was Miss Geraldine Nesbitt?

5. From where did Geraldine Nesbitt hold an M.A.?

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