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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) Move to Africa.
(b) Help desegregate the Northern schools where it was possible to do so.
(c) Liberate her people.
(d) Pass as white.

2. Who commanded the buses in Montgomery?
(a) The KKK.
(b) Tough men.
(c) The sheriff.
(d) The police.

3. When did Claudette move to the suburbs in Montgomery?
(a) At age 8.
(b) At age 5.
(c) At age 15.
(d) At age 4.

4. What did the Supreme Court do in 1954?
(a) Declined to consider it.
(b) Threw out Reeves' case.
(c) Upheld Reeves' sentence.
(d) Upheld Reeves' conviction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Claudette when she learned about what happens when blacks act out against whites?

2. Why did blacks depend upon buses?

3. In what decades are her childhood years?

4. When was Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka ruled upon?

5. Who is Claudette Colvin?

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