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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 is arrested.
(b) She contracted mumps.
(c) She went back to stay with her biological parents.
(d) She contracted polio.

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

3. What is one thing Claudette spent a lot of time doing?
(a) Writing her parents.
(b) Track and field events.
(c) Cleaning white people's homes.
(d) Praying.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was it hard for Claudette to be popular at Booker T. Washington High?

2. Where does Claudette go to live when she is a baby?

3. What did Claudette feel about the blacks' self image?

4. What did Claudette want to do after reading about Harriet Tubman?

5. Who was Miss Geraldine Nesbitt?

(see the answer key)

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