Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice

Question 1

According to the book, what was riding the bus like for the blacks?

Accepted Answer

Humiliating

Question 2

Jo Ann Robinson was i8nspired by Claudette's courage

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

Claudette Questioned "Why did everyone accept injustice?"

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

In the 1950's South, the whole system of racial segregation was known as what?

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow

Question 5

Why did Claudette say she refused to give up her seat?

Accepted Answer

It was her Constitutional Right to sit there

Question 6

How did Jo Ann Robinson and Dr. MLK Jr. feel about Claudette's trial?

Accepted Answer

Hopeful

Question 7

What was Claudette Colvin's sister name

Accepted Answer

Delphine

Question 8

Claudette's sister died of Polio

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

Rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white woman before Claudette Colvin

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

When black passengers paid their fare on the bus, they

Accepted Answer

Exited the front and enter through a rear door after paying their fare

Question 11

After Delphine's death, Claudette was very sensitive

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Why did people feel Reeves’s verdict was unjust?

Accepted Answer

Blacks knew white men would not have been sentenced to death for same crime

Question 13

Claudette Colvin is an African American hero

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

After Delphine’s death, Claudette became bothered by the fact that black students seemed to hate themselves.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

What happened to Jeremiah Reeves

Accepted Answer

Police made him confess to a crime he did not do and sentenced to death.

Question 16

What was Claudette’s response to the teachings that white people were better than black people?

Accepted Answer

"She didn’t buy that at all.” She felt that God loved everyone.

Question 17

Delphine died on Claudette Colvin's 15th birthday

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

Compare Montgomery, Alabama's bus laws to those of other Southern cities.

Accepted Answer

Montgomery's segregation rules were much more severe

Question 19

What is the author's name of the text

Accepted Answer

Phillip Hoose

Question 20

Claudette was found guilty of all chargers

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

Who was Claudette's favorite teacher?

Accepted Answer

Miss. Geraldine Nesbitt

Question 22

How was Claudette's arrest different from the earlier arrests of Geneva Johnson and Viola White?

Accepted Answer

Geneva and Viola plead guilty and Claudette did not plead guilty

Question 23

Claudette and her classmates began to to think a lot about racism and prejudice

Accepted Answer

After Jeremiah Reeves's arrest

Question 24

Name Claudette's class mate who was arrested for raping multiple white women.

Accepted Answer

Jeremiah Reeves

Question 25

What did Claudette and Fred Gray (her lawyer) have in common?

Accepted Answer

They both vowed to study law in the North and destroy segregation in South

Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice

Questions 25

Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice

Questions 25