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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did some of the white men on the buses carry?
(a) Knives.
(b) Billy clubs.
(c) Gloves so they didn't have to touch a black person.
(d) Guns.

2. What does Claudette do to stop looking white?
(a) Started wearing more African style clothes.
(b) Stopped straightening her hair.
(c) Started braiding her hair in dreadlocks.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. When does Claudette next see her sister Delphine?
(a) Never.
(b) The next school year.
(c) After she died.
(d) In high school.

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

11. 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) They were constantly harrassed by whites coming by.
(c) Fear of lynching.
(d) To celebrate a milestone.

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

13. Why were some people angry at Claudette?
(a) She acted like a celebrity.
(b) Her actions causes more problems with bus drivers.
(c) They were all proud of her, not angry.
(d) She talked to the press and gave them a bad impression of blacks.

14. How old was Claudette when she learned about what happens when blacks act out against whites?
(a) 12.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 18.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What changed as the bus moved onward on its route?

3. What did the driver say to Claudette?

4. How did the blacks feel after Claudette's conviction?

5. What did this practice mentioned in question 22 violate?

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