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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 boys' mother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The sheriff.

2. What happened to Brooks in 1952?
(a) He was hit by a black woman who refused to give up her seat.
(b) He was shot by a police officer for standing up to a driver.
(c) She was barred from the buses for the rest of her life and had to quit her job.
(d) She was fined.

3. Who was Mary Louise Smith?
(a) A white girl from the North who comes down to sit with blacks on the buses.
(b) A young black teenager who deified bus segregation.
(c) Claudette's best friend.
(d) A young black girl who is severely beaten for speaking for civil rights in a park.

4. In 1950, what percent of black women were maids for white families?
(a) 89.
(b) 60.
(c) 12.
(d) 22.

5. What did the Supreme Court do in 1954?
(a) Upheld Reeves' conviction.
(b) Upheld Reeves' sentence.
(c) Threw out Reeves' case.
(d) Declined to consider it.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did the driver say to Claudette?

4. Who is Delphine?

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

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