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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did this practice mentioned in question 22 violate?
(a) The city bus law.
(b) The Federal bus law.
(c) The county bus law.
(d) The State bus law.

2. Who came up while Claudette was still standing with the white boys?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The boys' mother.

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

4. What happened in Montgomery if the seats were full and a white got on the bus?
(a) The bus driver would move the black section back a row on the right so the white did not have to sit near a black.
(b) A black had to give up his/her seat.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The bus driver would move the black section back a row on the left so the white did not have to sit near a black.

5. To what is Fred Gray committed?
(a) Ending segregation.
(b) Keeping the sitution about Claudette from becoming a circus.
(c) Winning a prison sentence against Claudette.
(d) Upholding the system of segregation.

6. What does the narrator say controlled Claudette's life?
(a) The school she attends.
(b) Jim Crow.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Her neighborhood boundaries.

7. Who did Claudette meet at Rosa Parks' home one evening?
(a) Medgar Evers.
(b) Her future husband.
(c) Dr. King.
(d) A black man 10 years older than she.

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

9. Who was Miss Geraldine Nesbitt?
(a) Claudette's best friend.
(b) The principal of Washington High.
(c) The lawyer defending Reeves.
(d) One of Claudette's teachers.

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

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

12. Who did Claudette call "mom and dad"?
(a) Her grandparents.
(b) Her biological parents.
(c) Her maternal aunt and uncle.
(d) Her great aunt and uncle.

13. What did the Supreme Court do in 1954?
(a) Threw out Reeves' case.
(b) Upheld Reeves' sentence.
(c) Declined to consider it.
(d) Upheld Reeves' conviction.

14. Who is Mr. E. D. Nixon?
(a) One of the policemen who arrested Claudette.
(b) A public prosecutor.
(c) A Civil Rights lawyer.
(d) A Montgomery circuit court judge.

15. What did Claudette feel about the blacks' self image?
(a) That they hated themselves.
(b) That they were too proud.
(c) She did not express an opinion about that.
(d) That they had a good, strong self image.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many charges did Claudette face?

2. Where were the cops taking Claudette?

3. What percentage of the city bus riders were black?

4. What did Claudette want to do after studying the constitution?

5. Who is Jo Ann Robinson?

(see the answer keys)

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