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

2. What were the professional jobs blacks were allowed?
(a) Lawyer or dentist.
(b) Pastor or teacher.
(c) Doctor or pastor.
(d) Doctor or dentist.

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

4. What is one thing blacks and whites could not do together?
(a) Shop at the same farmer's market.
(b) Ride on the same train.
(c) Watch a sports event in a stadium.
(d) Play on the same sports team.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?

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

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

4. When does Claudette next see her sister Delphine?

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

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