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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what was Claudette deemed unfit?
(a) To go North and talk to activists.
(b) For a trip to Washington, D. C.
(c) To be the face of a movement.
(d) For a college scholarship.

2. What was Claudette's involvement in the NAACP?
(a) She attended the meetings sporadically.
(b) She quit as she felt betrayed by them.
(c) She became the youth secretary.
(d) She was elected the President.

3. Who is Delphine?
(a) Claudette's best friend.
(b) Claudette's younger sister.
(c) Claudette's great aunt.
(d) Claudette's aunt.

4. What happens to Delphine in the summer of 1952?
(a) She contracted polio.
(b) She went back to stay with her biological parents.
(c) She is arrested.
(d) She contracted mumps.

5. What did Claudette want to do after reading about Harriet Tubman?
(a) Pass as white.
(b) Help desegregate the Northern schools where it was possible to do so.
(c) Move to Africa.
(d) Liberate her people.

6. How much did blacks make in relation to whites?
(a) Four-fifths.
(b) Two-thirds.
(c) One-third.
(d) Half.

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

8. Why did blacks depend upon buses?
(a) To visit friends and family.
(b) They did not depend on the buses.
(c) To reach their white employers.
(d) To get to the grocery store.

9. How old was Claudette when she learned about what happens when blacks act out against whites?
(a) 18.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.

10. How were the races interacting during this time?
(a) Heavily segregated.
(b) Loosely segregated.
(c) Segregated, but if a black was well educated and wealthy, they could live in white areas.
(d) The blacks were confined to neighborhoods by tall fences.

11. From where did Geraldine Nesbitt hold an M.A.?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) University of Alabama.
(d) Harvard University.

12. What were blacks' attitudes as Claudette finished high school?
(a) Apathetic.
(b) It is not known.
(c) Increasingly negative.
(d) Hopeful.

13. Why was it hard for Claudette to be popular at Booker T. Washington High?
(a) She was actually very popular.
(b) Her parents were well to do and her friends were envious.
(c) She was light skinned and had straight hair.
(d) She was so smart.

14. Who was the secretary of the Montgomery NAACP at that time?
(a) Drusilla Parker.
(b) Joseph Sibel.
(c) Madeleine Scott.
(d) Rosa Parks.

15. Who is Fred Gray?
(a) The prosecutor in Claudette's trial.
(b) The judge in Claudette's trial.
(c) Claudette's lawyer.
(d) Claudette's best friend's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when Claudette rode with the police?

2. When was Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka ruled upon?

3. Why was Claudette's boyfriend upset with her?

4. When does Claudette next see her sister Delphine?

5. In 1950, what percent of black women were maids for white families?

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