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

2. In what decades are her childhood years?
(a) 1920-30s.
(b) 1930-40s.
(c) 1940-50s.
(d) 1950-60s.

3. Where is Claudette born?
(a) Birmingham.
(b) Shreveport.
(c) Pensacola.
(d) Mobile.

4. When was Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka ruled upon?
(a) May 17, 1959.
(b) May 17, 1954.
(c) August 27, 1958.
(d) August 27, 1951.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Claudette move to the suburbs in Montgomery?

2. Why did blacks depend upon buses?

3. Who came up while Claudette was still standing with the white boys?

4. What did 75 percent of the black men do in the 1950s?

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

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