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

2. To what is Fred Gray committed?
(a) Upholding the system of segregation.
(b) Winning a prison sentence against Claudette.
(c) Keeping the sitution about Claudette from becoming a circus.
(d) Ending segregation.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Claudette's mother learn about where she is?

2. What were blacks' attitudes as Claudette finished high school?

3. When was Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka ruled upon?

4. What did Claudette want to do after reading about Harriet Tubman?

5. How much did blacks make in relation to whites?

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