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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What percentage of the city bus riders were black?
(a) 38.
(b) 55.
(c) 75.
(d) 98.
2. Who is Claudette Colvin?
(a) The narrator at the opening of the book.
(b) The white girl whose best friend was black.
(c) The antagonist.
(d) The author of the book.
3. Where is Claudette born?
(a) Pensacola.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Shreveport.
(d) Mobile.
4. What were many of Claudette's friends at school feeling?
(a) Tired of civil rights.
(b) Uninterested in anything but dating and football.
(c) Hopeless.
(d) Bored with her.
5. Who did Claudette meet at Rosa Parks' home one evening?
(a) Dr. King.
(b) A black man 10 years older than she.
(c) Her future husband.
(d) Medgar Evers.
6. What did Claudette want to do after reading about Harriet Tubman?
(a) Move to Africa.
(b) Liberate her people.
(c) Pass as white.
(d) Help desegregate the Northern schools where it was possible to do so.
7. What did the driver say to Claudette?
(a) He had to put her on another bus since he forgot to stop at her stop.
(b) She needed to get off the bus and take another since it was broken down.
(c) Claudette did not need to get up since her foot was broken.
(d) He needed her row of seats.
8. Who is Mr. E. D. Nixon?
(a) A Civil Rights lawyer.
(b) A Montgomery circuit court judge.
(c) A public prosecutor.
(d) One of the policemen who arrested Claudette.
9. Who is Geraldine Nesbitt?
(a) One of Claudia's teachers.
(b) The President of the Women's Democratic League.
(c) The head of the NAACP in Montgomery.
(d) The President of the Women's Political Caucus.
10. How does Claudette's mother learn about where she is?
(a) A lawyer came and got her mother.
(b) School friends on the bus told her.
(c) Claudette called her and asked for her to come pick her up.
(d) The police called.
11. Why did Claudette's family stay up that night?
(a) To celebrate a milestone.
(b) Fear of lynching.
(c) They were constantly harrassed by whites coming by.
(d) They did not because it was a work night and didn't want to celebrate late.
12. What was Claudette's involvement in the NAACP?
(a) She quit as she felt betrayed by them.
(b) She became the youth secretary.
(c) She was elected the President.
(d) She attended the meetings sporadically.
13. What is one thing blacks and whites could not do together?
(a) Shop at the same farmer's market.
(b) Play on the same sports team.
(c) Ride on the same train.
(d) Watch a sports event in a stadium.
14. What does the judge decide?
(a) That Claudette is guilty of all charges.
(b) That Claudette is innocent of all charges.
(c) That Claudette is guilty of 2 of the charges.
(d) That Claudette is only guilty of breaking the segregation laws.
15. How did some of the white people insult Claudette?
(a) She doesn't remember being insulted by whites.
(b) By calling her "Nig."
(c) By calling her "Coot."
(d) By making her walk ten feet behind them.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why did two Montgomery police come on board the bus?
2. What did Claudette feel about the blacks' self image?
3. What happened when Claudette rode with the police?
4. Who is Fred Gray?
5. What did Claudette want to do after studying the constitution?
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