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

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

3. What was given as the reason for the segregation laws?
(a) The Negroes had asked for segregation.
(b) Was sanctioned by God.
(c) It was the way it was always done.
(d) Required for city order.

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

5. Who did Claudette call "mom and dad"?
(a) Her grandparents.
(b) Her maternal aunt and uncle.
(c) Her great aunt and uncle.
(d) Her biological parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were some people angry at Claudette?

2. Where is Claudette born?

3. How long did Claudette stay in Birmingham?

4. Why did Gray put Claudette last on the stand?

5. Who is Fred Gray?

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