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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. Who agreed with Claudette's mother?
(a) The white boys' mother.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) No one.
(d) Claudette's grandmother.

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

3. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?
(a) Killing a black child.
(b) Raping a white woman.
(c) Raping a black woman.
(d) Killing a police officer.

4. What is one thing Jim Crow did to the blacks?
(a) Gave them opportunities for education.
(b) Kept them fighting among themselves.
(c) Gave them opportunities for better jobs.
(d) Kept them poor.

5. What made Claudette angry when she would go to downtown Montgomery?
(a) That the buses the blacks wrote were constantly breaking down.
(b) That the buses were only air conditioned in the white sections.
(c) That there were racists signs in store windows.
(d) That she could not try on clothes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sometimes happened if a black person stood up to a driver?

3. In what decades are her childhood years?

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

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

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