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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9-10/Epilogue, Browder v. Gale, Rage in Montgomery, History's Door.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the community do for Claudette?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Paid her lawyers.
(c) Sent her to school in the North.
(d) Surrounded her with a protective web of silence.

2. In what state does Claudette Colvin grow up?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Texas.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Alabama.

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

4. How many people heard Claudette speak in 2005?
(a) Four hundred.
(b) A thousand.
(c) Two hundred.
(d) Two thousand.

5. How did Claudette's parents feel about her as they left the court house?
(a) Upset.
(b) Angry.
(c) Proud.
(d) Embarrassed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened on December 2, 1955?

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

3. What did Claudette feel about the blacks' self image?

4. What did King say when Claudette met him?

5. To what point of view does the narration change from the opening of the book?

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