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

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

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

4. Who became involved in Jeremiah Reeves' case?
(a) The NAACP.
(b) Amnesty International.
(c) No one as they were too scared.
(d) The Anti-defamation League.

5. What did 75 percent of the black men do in the 1950s?
(a) Unskilled labor.
(b) Farm.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They were able to get decent educations and work as clerical and service persons.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did this practice mentioned in question 22 violate?

3. Where is Claudette born?

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

5. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?

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