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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Robinson's group threaten?
(a) A bus boycott.
(b) A boycott of all businesses.
(c) A riot.
(d) Violence against bus drivers.

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

3. Who did Claudette meet at Rosa Parks' home one evening?
(a) Medgar Evers.
(b) Dr. King.
(c) Her future husband.
(d) A black man 10 years older than she.

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

5. How did Claudette feel about the bus boycott?
(a) Left out.
(b) She thought it was the wrong approach.
(c) Enthusiastic.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the youth group of the NAACP change to become better attended?

2. Why did two Montgomery police come on board the bus?

3. Who became involved in Jeremiah Reeves' case?

4. What did some of the white men on the buses carry?

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

(see the answer key)

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