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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one thing blacks and whites could not do together?
(a) Watch a sports event in a stadium.
(b) Ride on the same train.
(c) Shop at the same farmer's market.
(d) Play on the same sports team.

2. Where is Claudette born?
(a) Shreveport.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Mobile.
(d) Pensacola.

3. Why did the person do that to Claudette?
(a) To teach her not to touch white people.
(b) To get her away from the boys.
(c) Because the boys had gone beyond what was considered ok.
(d) Because Claudette spit on the sidewalk in front of the boys.

4. To what point of view does the narration change from the opening of the book?
(a) First person.
(b) Second person.
(c) It stays the same.
(d) Third person.

5. Why was Claudette's boyfriend upset with her?
(a) For not being willing to marry him.
(b) For wanting to go to college.
(c) For continuing to attend the NAACP meetings.
(d) For not straightening her hair.

6. Who would not sit in the aisle across from Claudette?
(a) A white girl from school who Claudette did not like.
(b) A young white man who was standing.
(c) A black girl from school who did not like Claudette.
(d) The white woman who was standing.

7. What did Robinson collect?
(a) Stories of abuse by bus drivers.
(b) Stories of legal triumphs for black rights.
(c) Money for Claudette's defense.
(d) Money for Claudette's family to move North.

8. What did the white boys want of Claudette?
(a) To see her hands.
(b) To steal her dog.
(c) To take her to the movies.
(d) To steal her coat.

9. About what was Claudette curious?
(a) If her white friends thought she was inferior.
(b) How it came to be that whites had so much power over blacks.
(c) Why God created people of different races.
(d) What it would be like to be a white person.

10. 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.

11. What changed as the bus moved onward on its route?
(a) The police stopped the bus looking for a fugitive.
(b) The bus broke down in an all-white neighborhood.
(c) The bus filled and a white woman was standing.
(d) The bus did not stop at her stop.

12. Who is Geraldine Nesbitt?
(a) One of Claudia's teachers.
(b) The head of the NAACP in Montgomery.
(c) The President of the Women's Democratic League.
(d) The President of the Women's Political Caucus.

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

14. What did the judge do?
(a) Held the bus driver in contempt for lying.
(b) Held the police in contempt for false arrest.
(c) Withheld ajudication so Claudette would not have a criminal record.
(d) Put Claudette on probation.

15. What did Reverend Johnson do?
(a) Bailed out Claudette.
(b) Told Claudette she was wrong to have created a fuss.
(c) Talked to the bus driver.
(d) Met Claudette and her mother when they came back from the police station.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Claudette call "mom and dad"?

2. For what was Claudette deemed unfit?

3. What does Fred Gray urge?

4. Why were some people angry at Claudette?

5. Who was the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

(see the answer keys)

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