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

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

3. 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.

4. What did Claudette feel about the blacks' self image?
(a) That they had a good, strong self image.
(b) That they were too proud.
(c) She did not express an opinion about that.
(d) That they hated themselves.

5. Why did the person do that to Claudette?
(a) Because Claudette spit on the sidewalk in front of the boys.
(b) Because the boys had gone beyond what was considered ok.
(c) To teach her not to touch white people.
(d) To get her away from the boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Delphine?

2. What happens to Delphine in the summer of 1952?

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

4. What did Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka do?

5. What is one thing Jim Crow did to the blacks?

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