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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Police Commissioner do?
(a) Agreed to drop the charges.
(b) Agreed to lessen the charges.
(c) Refused to drop the charges.
(d) Nothing.

2. What did the boys do when Claudette and the white boys touched each other's hands?
(a) Push Claudette down.
(b) Slap Claudette.
(c) Yell at Claudette.
(d) Laugh.

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

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

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

6. What did Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka do?
(a) Upheld segregation in public schools.
(b) Outlawed segregation in public schools.
(c) Created the separate but equal ruling.
(d) Nothing as it was quickly overturned.

7. What did Claudette do?
(a) Go and sit at the seat behind the bus driver so they could talk.
(b) Get off at the next stop so she could get on the right bus.
(c) Stay in her seat.
(d) Get up anywy even with a cast on her foot.

8. Who was the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?
(a) James Forman.
(b) W.E.B. Dubois.
(c) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Medgar Evers.

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

10. Who is Fred Gray?
(a) The judge in Claudette's trial.
(b) Claudette's lawyer.
(c) Claudette's best friend's father.
(d) The prosecutor in Claudette's trial.

11. What is one thing Jim Crow did to the blacks?
(a) Gave them opportunities for education.
(b) Gave them opportunities for better jobs.
(c) Kept them fighting among themselves.
(d) Kept them poor.

12. How did the blacks feel after Claudette's conviction?
(a) They though she deserved what she got.
(b) Ready to rebel.
(c) They thought it is too soon to take action.
(d) They thought she should have moved.

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

14. What did the driver say to Claudette?
(a) He needed her row of seats.
(b) He had to put her on another bus since he forgot to stop at her stop.
(c) Claudette did not need to get up since her foot was broken.
(d) She needed to get off the bus and take another since it was broken down.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What else could Gray appeal constitutionally?

2. Who is Jo Ann Robinson?

3. What did the community do for Claudette?

4. Why were many worried about making Claudette the face of the movement?

5. What were blacks' attitudes as Claudette finished high school?

(see the answer keys)

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