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

2. How were the races interacting during this time?
(a) Loosely segregated.
(b) The blacks were confined to neighborhoods by tall fences.
(c) Heavily segregated.
(d) Segregated, but if a black was well educated and wealthy, they could live in white areas.

3. Why was it hard for Claudette to be popular at Booker T. Washington High?
(a) She was light skinned and had straight hair.
(b) She was so smart.
(c) Her parents were well to do and her friends were envious.
(d) She was actually very popular.

4. In 1950, what percent of black women were maids for white families?
(a) 89.
(b) 22.
(c) 60.
(d) 12.

5. What happens to Delphine in the summer of 1952?
(a) She contracted polio.
(b) She went back to stay with her biological parents.
(c) She is arrested.
(d) She contracted mumps.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Claudette call "mom and dad"?

2. Where did blacks have to sit on the bus?

3. What were the professional jobs blacks were allowed?

4. What did Claudette feel about the blacks' self image?

5. What happened in Montgomery if the seats were full and a white got on the bus?

(see the answer key)

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