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

2. What does Claudette do to stop looking white?
(a) Started wearing more African style clothes.
(b) Started braiding her hair in dreadlocks.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Stopped straightening her hair.

3. What happened in Montgomery if the seats were full and a white got on the bus?
(a) The bus driver would move the black section back a row on the left so the white did not have to sit near a black.
(b) A black had to give up his/her seat.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The bus driver would move the black section back a row on the right so the white did not have to sit near a black.

4. What were many of Claudette's friends at school feeling?
(a) Uninterested in anything but dating and football.
(b) Hopeless.
(c) Tired of civil rights.
(d) Bored with her.

5. What percentage of the city bus riders were black?
(a) 75.
(b) 38.
(c) 55.
(d) 98.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Robinson's group threaten?

2. Why did Claudette's family stay up that night?

3. Who was Miss Geraldine Nesbitt?

4. For what was Claudette deemed unfit?

5. What did Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka do?

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