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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Claudette's family stay up that night?
(a) To celebrate a milestone.
(b) Fear of lynching.
(c) They were constantly harrassed by whites coming by.
(d) They did not because it was a work night and didn't want to celebrate late.

2. What changed as the bus moved onward on its route?
(a) The bus filled and a white woman was standing.
(b) The bus broke down in an all-white neighborhood.
(c) The police stopped the bus looking for a fugitive.
(d) The bus did not stop at her stop.

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

4. What happened when Claudette rode with the police?
(a) They ridiculed her.
(b) They were kind to her.
(c) They slapped her around.
(d) They didn't talk to her at all.

5. What did Claudette want to do after reading about Harriet Tubman?
(a) Pass as white.
(b) Move to Africa.
(c) Liberate her people.
(d) Help desegregate the Northern schools where it was possible to do so.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Miss Geraldine Nesbitt?

2. Why was it hard for Claudette to be popular at Booker T. Washington High?

3. When does Claudette next see her sister Delphine?

4. Who is Mrs. Hamilton?

5. What was Claudette's involvement in the NAACP?

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