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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) Created the separate but equal ruling.
(b) Upheld segregation in public schools.
(c) Outlawed segregation in public schools.
(d) Nothing as it was quickly overturned.

2. What did Claudette feel about the blacks' self image?
(a) She did not express an opinion about that.
(b) That they were too proud.
(c) That they had a good, strong self image.
(d) That they hated themselves.

3. Who is Mr. E. D. Nixon?
(a) One of the policemen who arrested Claudette.
(b) A public prosecutor.
(c) A Civil Rights lawyer.
(d) A Montgomery circuit court judge.

4. Why did Claudette sit in the front of the bus on March 2, 1955?
(a) No whites were there.
(b) She was getting off at the very next stop.
(c) She started talking to a white girl who invited her to sit by her.
(d) She had a cast on her broken foot.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What made Claudette angry when she would go to downtown Montgomery?

2. Why was Claudette's boyfriend upset with her?

3. What did the judge do?

4. How did the youth group of the NAACP change to become better attended?

5. Who is Claudette Colvin?

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