Claudette Colvin: Chapters 1-5

The rules, customs and traditions of Montgomery, said the bus driver was a segregation law enforcer. What vocabulary word is a synonym for the underlined words?

• ordinance

• humiliating

• segregation

• infuriating

Which two vocabulary words describe how blacks felt while riding busses? (choose 2)

• ordinance

• humiliating

• segregation

• infuriating

During the first half of the 1900’s these kinds of laws were enforced in the southern United States, but not in the Northern states.

• ordinance

• humiliating

• segregation

• infuriating

What age was Claudette when she learned her first lesson about the way blacks and whites were to behave together?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

What was the commonly heard name for segregation laws?

• Jim Crow

• Robert Raven

• Crow Jimbo

• Crowding Carl

Where was one place blacks and whites were forced to be together on a daily basis?

• restaurants

• churches

• busses

• grocery stores

Choose a correct synonym for the word: INQUISITIVE

• dull

• curious

• brilliant

• sleepy

Choose a correct synonym for the word: DEGRADING.

• shaming

• uplifting

• demanding

• dirty

What major event was happening in Claudette’s childhood?

• World War I

• World War II

• Vietnam War

• The Cold War

Who did Claudette live with?

• her biological mother and father

• her sister Delphine

• all of her sisters

• her great aunt, great uncle and her sister Delphine