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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. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?
(a) Raping a white woman.
(b) Killing a police officer.
(c) Raping a black woman.
(d) Killing a black child.

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

3. What else could Gray appeal constitutionally?
(a) All the charges.
(b) The charge of assaulting the police officers.
(c) The charge of the segregation laws.
(d) Nothing.

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

5. What were many of Claudette's friends at school feeling?
(a) Hopeless.
(b) Tired of civil rights.
(c) Bored with her.
(d) Uninterested in anything but dating and football.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did city officials continue to do in the summer of 1956?

2. Who was the secretary of the Montgomery NAACP at that time?

3. What did Parks do for a living?

4. What was held the night of December 5th?

5. What did the Police Commissioner do?

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