Chapter 1: “Jim Crow and the Detested Number Ten”
Chapter 2: “Coot”
Chapter 3: “We Seemed to Hate Ourselves”
Chapter 4: “It’s My Constitutional Right!”
Chapter 5: “There’s the Girl Who Got Arrested”
100

What number was associated with a segregated bus seat that Claudette Colvin detested?


What is ten?

100

What nickname did Claudette get as a child?


What is Coot?

100

What school did Claudette attend in Montgomery?


What is Booker T. Washington High School?

100

What date did Claudette refuse to give up her bus seat?


What is March 2, 1955?

100

What was the immediate reaction from people around Claudette after her arrest?


What is they avoided her or whispered about her?

200

What term refers to the strict racial segregation laws in the South?

What is Jim Crow?

200

Who raised Claudette after her birth parents separated?


Who are Mary Ann and Q.P. Colvin?

200

What emotion did Claudette feel on her first day of high school?


What is loneliness or sadness?

200

What type of fare did Claudette use on the bus?


What is a student coupon (pink half-fare ticket)?

200

Who was Fred Gray?


What is Claudette’s lawyer and future major civil rights attorney?

300

What painful lesson did Claudette learn in the general store about race?

What is that she wasn’t allowed to touch a white person?

300

What tragic event shaped Claudette’s early years?


What is the death of her sister, Delphine?

300

What contributed to feelings of inferiority among Black students?


What is skin tone and hair texture?

300

Why did Claudette refuse to move for the white passenger?


What is she felt it was her constitutional right to keep her seat?

300

How did Claudette feel about being called “crazy”?


What is hurt and frustrated, as she believed in what she did?

400

How did Claudette’s mother react when she touched a white boy’s hand?

What is she slapped her and reminded her of the rules of segregation?

400

What type of school did Claudette attend in Pine Level?


What is a one-room schoolhouse?

400

What did Claudette struggle with after Delphine’s death?


What is her faith and identity?

400

What did Claudette shout to the police as they arrested her?


What is “It’s my constitutional right!”

400

How did the black community initially respond to Claudette’s arrest?


What is with hesitation; she wasn’t supported like Rosa Parks later was.

500

How does the author use Claudette’s early memory to introduce the theme of injustice?

What is by showing how racism shaped her childhood and identity from a young age?

500

 Why did Claudette’s family mark spoiled eggs with an “H”?


What is “H” for Hitler, during WWII, showing their awareness of world events?

500

How does the chapter title connect to Claudette’s experiences at school?


What is it reflects internalized racism and pressure to look “almost white”?

500

How did Claudette’s action on the bus foreshadow her later role in civil rights history?


What is it marked her as a trailblazer willing to challenge injustice directly?

500

Why did Claudette struggle with being seen as the face of the movement?


What is she was young, dark-skinned, and from a working-class background?

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