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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 the Police Commissioner do?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Agreed to drop the charges.
(c) Refused to drop the charges.
(d) Agreed to lessen the charges.

2. Who came up while Claudette was still standing with the white boys?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The boys' mother.

3. Why was Claudette's boyfriend upset with her?
(a) For wanting to go to college.
(b) For continuing to attend the NAACP meetings.
(c) For not being willing to marry him.
(d) For not straightening her hair.

4. To what point of view does the narration change from the opening of the book?
(a) Third person.
(b) Second person.
(c) It stays the same.
(d) First person.

5. What is one thing Jim Crow did to the blacks?
(a) Kept them poor.
(b) Kept them fighting among themselves.
(c) Gave them opportunities for education.
(d) Gave them opportunities for better jobs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the Montgomery Circuit Court adjudicate about Claudette's conviction?

3. What were many of Claudette's friends at school feeling?

4. What does Claudette do to stop looking white?

5. What did Reverend Johnson do?

(see the answer key)

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