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

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

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

5. When does Claudette next see her sister Delphine?
(a) Never.
(b) The next school year.
(c) After she died.
(d) In high school.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1950, what percent of black women were maids for white families?

2. What does the narrator say controlled Claudette's life?

3. How old was Claudette when she learned about what happens when blacks act out against whites?

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

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

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