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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8,.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of changes did black leaders want?
(a) Big changes all around.
(b) Modest ones.
(c) They only wanted segregation on the bus lines to stop.
(d) They asked for a complete rewriting of city law codes.

3. Why did Claudette feel hurt?
(a) She was reviled for her arrest.
(b) She was told she was a bad example.
(c) She was lectured for yelling when arrested.
(d) Because she was ignored by the boycott planners.

4. Why did blacks depend upon buses?
(a) They did not depend on the buses.
(b) To visit friends and family.
(c) To reach their white employers.
(d) To get to the grocery store.

5. What does the person who came up to Claudette do?
(a) Slaps Claudette.
(b) Arrest the boys.
(c) Pulls Claudette aside to say something to her in private.
(d) Arrest Claudette.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else could Gray appeal constitutionally?

2. Why did the person do that to Claudette?

3. What did the community do for Claudette?

4. Where did Claudette sit at the rally?

5. Who agreed with Claudette's mother?

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