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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When did Claudette move to the suburbs in Montgomery?
(a) At age 15.
(b) At age 8.
(c) At age 4.
(d) At age 5.

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

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

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

8. Who commanded the buses in Montgomery?
(a) The sheriff.
(b) Tough men.
(c) The police.
(d) The KKK.

9. Why did two Montgomery police come on board the bus?
(a) To talk to Claudette and convince her to move.
(b) To arrest Claudette.
(c) To talk to the bus driver and tell him he was breaking the law.
(d) They did not come on board the bus.

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

11. How does Claudette's mother learn about where she is?
(a) The police called.
(b) School friends on the bus told her.
(c) Claudette called her and asked for her to come pick her up.
(d) A lawyer came and got her mother.

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

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

14. Where did blacks have to sit on the bus?
(a) In the back.
(b) On the front right.
(c) On the front left.
(d) In the front.

15. What happened when Claudette rode with the police?
(a) They didn't talk to her at all.
(b) They ridiculed her.
(c) They were kind to her.
(d) They slapped her around.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the secretary of the Montgomery NAACP at that time?

2. What did Robinson's group threaten?

3. With whom did Claudette develop a connection to?

4. What happened in Montgomery if the seats were full and a white got on the bus?

5. Who did Claudette meet at Rosa Parks' home one evening?

(see the answer keys)

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