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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 people say about Claudette when she left Montgomery?
(a) She was crazy.
(b) She was stupid.
(c) She didn't care about civil rights.
(d) She was brave.

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

3. What does Fred Gray urge?
(a) A plea bargain.
(b) That Claudette apologize publicly to the bus driver.
(c) That Claudette's family move away from Montgomery and the charges would be dropped.
(d) Claudette's family to consider the hazard of contesting the charge.

4. How did Claudette's mother's employers feel about the boycott?
(a) Angry.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Curious.
(d) Sympathetic.

5. In what state does Claudette Colvin grow up?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Texas.
(d) Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many blacks rode the buses on the morning of December 5th?

2. Why did two Montgomery police come on board the bus?

3. To what point of view does the narration change from the opening of the book?

4. Why did Claudette sit in the front of the bus on March 2, 1955?

5. What did the judge do?

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