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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Why did Claudette's family stay up that night?
(a) They did not because it was a work night and didn't want to celebrate late.
(b) To celebrate a milestone.
(c) Fear of lynching.
(d) They were constantly harrassed by whites coming by.

3. Who agreed with Claudette's mother?
(a) The sheriff.
(b) The white boys' mother.
(c) Claudette's grandmother.
(d) No one.

4. What did everyone lose interest in except Gray?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Appealing Claudette's case further.
(c) Claudette's future.
(d) A bus boycott.

5. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?
(a) Raping a white woman.
(b) Killing a black child.
(c) Killing a police officer.
(d) Raping a black woman.

6. What else could Gray appeal constitutionally?
(a) The charge of assaulting the police officers.
(b) Nothing.
(c) All the charges.
(d) The charge of the segregation laws.

7. What did the boys do when Claudette and the white boys touched each other's hands?
(a) Yell at Claudette.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Slap Claudette.
(d) Push Claudette down.

8. What happened at the next stop the bus made?
(a) Claudette gets up to leave but the young white man prevents her.
(b) A policeman is waiting to arrest Claudette.
(c) Claudette's mom is waiting for her.
(d) The bus hits a telephone pole.

9. What sometimes happened if a black person stood up to a driver?
(a) They were barred from the buses for a month.
(b) They were thrown in jail.
(c) S/he was fined.
(d) They were barred from ever using the bus again.

10. What did the community do for Claudette?
(a) Surrounded her with a protective web of silence.
(b) Paid her lawyers.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Sent her to school in the North.

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

12. Who is Jo Ann Robinson?
(a) Claudette's math teacher.
(b) Claudette's history teacher.
(c) An English professor at Alabama State College.
(d) Claudette's lawyer.

13. In 1950, what percent of black women were maids for white families?
(a) 22.
(b) 60.
(c) 12.
(d) 89.

14. Who was Mary Louise Smith?
(a) A young black girl who is severely beaten for speaking for civil rights in a park.
(b) A white girl from the North who comes down to sit with blacks on the buses.
(c) Claudette's best friend.
(d) A young black teenager who deified bus segregation.

15. What happened to Brooks in 1952?
(a) He was shot by a police officer for standing up to a driver.
(b) She was fined.
(c) He was hit by a black woman who refused to give up her seat.
(d) She was barred from the buses for the rest of her life and had to quit her job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mrs. Hamilton?

2. Why did Claudette sit in the front of the bus on March 2, 1955?

3. Of what group is Jo Ann Robinson a member?

4. How were the races interacting during this time?

5. What did Claudette feel about the blacks' self image?

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