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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Miss Geraldine Nesbitt?
(a) The principal of Washington High.
(b) Claudette's best friend.
(c) The lawyer defending Reeves.
(d) One of Claudette's teachers.

2. Why did Claudette sit in the front of the bus on March 2, 1955?
(a) She was getting off at the very next stop.
(b) No whites were there.
(c) She started talking to a white girl who invited her to sit by her.
(d) She had a cast on her broken foot.

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

4. What made Claudette angry when she would go to downtown Montgomery?
(a) That she could not try on clothes.
(b) That the buses the blacks wrote were constantly breaking down.
(c) That there were racists signs in store windows.
(d) That the buses were only air conditioned in the white sections.

5. About what was Claudette curious?
(a) What it would be like to be a white person.
(b) If her white friends thought she was inferior.
(c) Why God created people of different races.
(d) How it came to be that whites had so much power over blacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the judge decide?

2. What were many of Claudette's friends at school feeling?

3. What does the narrator say controlled Claudette's life?

4. How much did blacks make in relation to whites?

5. Who was Mary Louise Smith?

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