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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. About what was Claudette curious?
(a) What it would be like to be a white person.
(b) How it came to be that whites had so much power over blacks.
(c) Why God created people of different races.
(d) If her white friends thought she was inferior.

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

3. What happened to Brooks in 1952?
(a) He was hit by a black woman who refused to give up her seat.
(b) She was fined.
(c) He was shot by a police officer for standing up to a driver.
(d) She was barred from the buses for the rest of her life and had to quit her job.

4. Who greeted Claudette at the courthouse?
(a) A group of supporters.
(b) Her family.
(c) All of her classmates from Montgomery.
(d) Rosa Parks.

5. What changed as the bus moved onward on its route?
(a) The bus did not stop at her stop.
(b) The police stopped the bus looking for a fugitive.
(c) The bus broke down in an all-white neighborhood.
(d) The bus filled and a white woman was standing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Reverend Johnson do?

2. Who first dug up Claudette's story in 1975?

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

4. What did the Police Commissioner do?

5. What were blacks' attitudes as Claudette finished high school?

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