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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did Geraldine Nesbitt hold an M.A.?

2. Where did blacks have to sit on the bus?

3. Why did the person do that to Claudette?

4. What did the white boys want of Claudette?

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

(see the answer key)

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