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1. What was the result of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Supreme
Court case?
A. that states could not ban Black and white people from marrying
B. that schools could be separated by race and still be equal
C. that the U.S. Constitution did not see Black people as citizens
D. that schools could not be segregated by race
2. How does the text describe Thurgood Marshall's work in the late 1940s and early
1950s?
A. He was a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
B. He was the principal of a school with Black students.
C. He was the chief staff lawyer for the NAACP.
D. He was the mayor of Topeka, Kansas.
3. Read the following sentences from the text.
"Marshall and the NAACP were trying to change the current law, which said it was
okay to have separate schools for Black and white people as long as they were
equal. In reality, separate almost never meant equal. In 1951, Clarendon County,
South Carolina, spent more than three times as much on each white child's education
as it did on each Black child....When Briggs went to trial, Marshall showed how little
money was spent on schools for Black children and how their schools were not equal
to schools that white children attended."
What conclusion can you draw from this evidence about the quality of education that
Black children in Clarendon county were receiving?
A. Black students were attending better schools because their schools had more money.
B. Black students had better science education because that did not depend on money.
C. Black students attended schools in better neighborhoods so their schools were safer.
D. Black students were receiving lower quality education because their schools had less
money.

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Thurgood Marshall: From Briggs to Brown - Comprehension Questions

4. What was the final verdict in the Briggs v. Elliott case?
A. The final verdict was given by the Supreme Court and said that Black people could
not become U.S. citizens.
B. The final verdict was given by Clarendon County and said that separate but equal
schools were okay.
C. The final verdict was given by the Supreme Court and said that schools could not be
segregated by race.
D. The final verdict was given by Clarendon County and said that Black and white people
could marry each other.
5. What is the main idea of this text?
A. Thurgood Marshall was the chief lawyer for the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People in the late 1940s and early 1950s and spent his career
representing cases to prove that schools could be separated by race and still be equal.
B. Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer with the NAACP who argued that schools should not
be segregated by race in the Briggs v. Elliott case, and ultimately won his case at the
Supreme Court, which ruled that schools could not be separated by race and be equal.
C. Briggs v. Elliott was a 1951 court case in Clarendon County, South Carolina, that was
filed by Black parents whose children were disadvantaged by the law that said schools
could be separated by race and still be equal, and was similar to four other cases at the
time.
D. The justices of the United States Supreme Court unanimously agreed that schools
could be equal even if they were separated by race and demanded that Clarendon
County do its part in making sure Black schools had the funding to actually be separate
and equal.

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Thurgood Marshall: From Briggs to Brown - Comprehension Questions

6. Read the following sentences from the text.
"Have you heard of the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka,
Kansas? It was the 1954 case that declared racial segregation in public schools
unconstitutional, that is, that it was against the law to make Black and white people
attend different public schools. But Brown was preceded by another similar case that
reached the Supreme Court first. The case was Briggs v. Elliott, and Thurgood
Marshall was the main lawyer for the case."
As used in this excerpt, what does the word "preceded" most closely mean?
A. came before
B. protested
C. from long ago
D. full of false information
7. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.
When Thurgood Marshall took Briggs v. Elliott to the U.S. Supreme Court, it was
joined with four other cases ________ they were similar to Briggs v. Elliott.
A. because
B. currently
C. otherwise
D. especially

Answer 1

1. **Answer:** D. that schools could not be segregated by race.

2. **Answer:** C. He was the chief staff lawyer for the NAACP.

3. **Answer:** D. Black students were receiving lower quality education because their schools had less money.

4. **Answer:** B. The final verdict was given by Clarendon County and said that separate but equal schools were okay.

5. **Answer:** B. Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer with the NAACP who argued that schools should not be segregated by race in the Briggs v. Elliott case, and ultimately won his case at the Supreme Court, which ruled that schools could not be separated by race and be equal.

6. **Answer:** A. came before

7. **Answer:** A. because