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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. What worried Claudette more than the court decision?
(a) The kids at school.
(b) Being a teenager with a baby.
(c) Her mother's illness.
(d) Being lynched.

2. Where were the cops taking Claudette?
(a) To her bus stop since the bus was broken down.
(b) To jail.
(c) To her home so she would not be in danger walking through a white neighborhood.
(d) To talk to a lawyer.

3. What percentage of the city bus riders were black?
(a) 98.
(b) 55.
(c) 38.
(d) 75.

4. How did Parks act when she was arrested?
(a) She verbally assaults the arresting officers.
(b) Calmly and without resisting.
(c) Sullen.
(d) Hysterical.

5. What was the final verdict of the court on Claudette and the others' case?
(a) Segregation was legal.
(b) Segregation on buses was abolished.
(c) It would go on to another court.
(d) Segregation was legal on buses but not in the schools.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did blacks depend upon buses?

2. Who first dug up Claudette's story in 1975?

3. What was Parks permitted to do?

4. Who was Miss Geraldine Nesbitt?

5. Why was Claudette considered a political liability at this time?

(see the answer key)

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