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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who came up while Claudette was still standing with the white boys?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The boys' mother.

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

3. Who was Miss Geraldine Nesbitt?
(a) Claudette's best friend.
(b) The principal of Washington High.
(c) The lawyer defending Reeves.
(d) One of Claudette's teachers.

4. In what state does Claudette Colvin grow up?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Texas.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Mississippi.

5. Where did blacks have to sit on the bus?
(a) In the front.
(b) On the front left.
(c) On the front right.
(d) In the back.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why were some people angry at Claudette?

3. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?

4. What did many of the black people think of Claudette?

5. What did the Supreme Court do in 1954?

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