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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 does the narrator say controlled Claudette's life?
(a) Her neighborhood boundaries.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Jim Crow.
(d) The school she attends.

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

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

4. How old was Claudette when she learned about what happens when blacks act out against whites?
(a) 4.
(b) 12.
(c) 18.
(d) 6.

5. How much did blacks make in relation to whites?
(a) Four-fifths.
(b) One-third.
(c) Half.
(d) Two-thirds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did this practice mentioned in question 22 violate?

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

3. Who became involved in Jeremiah Reeves' case?

4. What does the person who came up to Claudette do?

5. Where is Claudette born?

(see the answer key)

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