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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka do?
(a) Upheld segregation in public schools.
(b) Created the separate but equal ruling.
(c) Outlawed segregation in public schools.
(d) Nothing as it was quickly overturned.

2. What happens to Delphine in the summer of 1952?
(a) She went back to stay with her biological parents.
(b) She contracted polio.
(c) She is arrested.
(d) She contracted mumps.

3. What does the narrator say controlled Claudette's life?
(a) Her neighborhood boundaries.
(b) The school she attends.
(c) Jim Crow.
(d) Nothing.

4. What did the driver say to Claudette?
(a) He needed her row of seats.
(b) She needed to get off the bus and take another since it was broken down.
(c) Claudette did not need to get up since her foot was broken.
(d) He had to put her on another bus since he forgot to stop at her stop.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?

2. In what state does Claudette Colvin grow up?

3. Who did Claudette call "mom and dad"?

4. Why were many worried about making Claudette the face of the movement?

5. Of what group is Jo Ann Robinson a member?

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