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

2. What sometimes happened if a black person stood up to a driver?
(a) They were barred from the buses for a month.
(b) They were thrown in jail.
(c) S/he was fined.
(d) They were barred from ever using the bus again.

3. When does Claudette next see her sister Delphine?
(a) In high school.
(b) After she died.
(c) Never.
(d) The next school year.

4. What did this practice mentioned in question 22 violate?
(a) The State bus law.
(b) The city bus law.
(c) The county bus law.
(d) The Federal bus law.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did blacks depend upon buses?

2. Why did the person do that to Claudette?

3. Who was Miss Geraldine Nesbitt?

4. What did the boys do when Claudette and the white boys touched each other's hands?

5. What did the white boys want of Claudette?

(see the answer key)

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