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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. Who did Claudette meet at lunch at the court house?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Dr. King.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) Mary Louise.

2. Where was Claudette when the first symbolic bus rides were taken after the boycott ended?
(a) On the lead bus.
(b) She was at the television station for an interview.
(c) In Birmingham.
(d) Nowhere to be found.

3. What did the Montgomery Circuit Court adjudicate about Claudette's conviction?
(a) Declined to review the case.
(b) Dropped all the charges.
(c) Upheld the conviction on all the charges.
(d) Dropped all but assault on a police officer.

4. How did some of the white people insult Claudette?
(a) By calling her "Nig."
(b) She doesn't remember being insulted by whites.
(c) By making her walk ten feet behind them.
(d) By calling her "Coot."

5. Who gave the main speech?
(a) W. E. B. Dubois.
(b) Medgar Evers.
(c) Dr. Martin Luther King.
(d) Rosa Parks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Parks' arrest spark such a reaction?

2. What were many of Claudette's friends at school feeling?

3. What did the first three plaintiffs testify to when Gray presented them?

4. What did the Police Commissioner do?

5. What did 75 percent of the black men do in the 1950s?

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