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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' marital status?
(a) Widowed.
(b) Married.
(c) Single.
(d) Divorced.

2. Who was Mary Louise Smith?
(a) A young black teenager who deified bus segregation.
(b) A white girl from the North who comes down to sit with blacks on the buses.
(c) A young black girl who is severely beaten for speaking for civil rights in a park.
(d) Claudette's best friend.

3. When was Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka ruled upon?
(a) May 17, 1954.
(b) May 17, 1959.
(c) August 27, 1958.
(d) August 27, 1951.

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

5. Why did Claudette feel hurt?
(a) Because she was ignored by the boycott planners.
(b) She was told she was a bad example.
(c) She was reviled for her arrest.
(d) She was lectured for yelling when arrested.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did everyone lose interest in except Gray?

2. What is said of Parks' skin color?

3. What does Claudette do to stop looking white?

4. What did Reverend Johnson do?

5. What did many of the black people think of Claudette?

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