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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the judge decide?
(a) That Claudette is innocent of all charges.
(b) That Claudette is guilty of all charges.
(c) That Claudette is guilty of 2 of the charges.
(d) That Claudette is only guilty of breaking the segregation laws.

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

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

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

7. What did Robinson's group threaten?
(a) A boycott of all businesses.
(b) A bus boycott.
(c) Violence against bus drivers.
(d) A riot.

8. How many charges did Claudette face?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

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

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

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

12. 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) 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.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A black had to give up his/her seat.

13. What did many of the black people think of Claudette?
(a) That she was unstable.
(b) That she was an excellent figurehead for the movement.
(c) That she was emotional and feisty.
(d) That she was smarter than the rest of them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mr. E. D. Nixon?

2. Where were the cops taking Claudette?

3. How did the youth group of the NAACP change to become better attended?

4. With whom did Claudette develop a connection to?

5. What did Claudette want to do after reading about Harriet Tubman?

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