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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) Sent her to school in the North.
(c) Paid her lawyers.
(d) Surrounded her with a protective web of silence.

2. Why was Claudette shunned having to do with her baby?
(a) He was developmentally slow.
(b) He was light skinned.
(c) She refused to marry his father.
(d) His father was white.

3. In 1950, what percent of black women were maids for white families?
(a) 22.
(b) 89.
(c) 60.
(d) 12.

4. What does Claudette think she did that Parks could not have done?
(a) Worked for civil rights while pregnant.
(b) Brought many young people into the Civil Rights movement.
(c) Made the first step for justice.
(d) Won the court case in Browder v. Gayle.

5. What was Parks' marital status?
(a) Widowed.
(b) Divorced.
(c) Single.
(d) Married.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Claudette go when she left Birmingham?

3. Why was Claudette considered a political liability at this time?

4. Why was Claudette's boyfriend upset with her?

5. Who agreed with Claudette's mother?

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