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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who became involved in Jeremiah Reeves' case?
(a) The Anti-defamation League.
(b) Amnesty International.
(c) No one as they were too scared.
(d) The NAACP.

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

5. Why was Claudette's boyfriend upset with her?
(a) For wanting to go to college.
(b) For continuing to attend the NAACP meetings.
(c) For not straightening her hair.
(d) For not being willing to marry him.

6. In what decades are her childhood years?
(a) 1940-50s.
(b) 1930-40s.
(c) 1950-60s.
(d) 1920-30s.

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

13. What does Fred Gray urge?
(a) A plea bargain.
(b) Claudette's family to consider the hazard of contesting the charge.
(c) That Claudette's family move away from Montgomery and the charges would be dropped.
(d) That Claudette apologize publicly to the bus driver.

14. How were the races interacting during this time?
(a) Heavily segregated.
(b) Loosely segregated.
(c) The blacks were confined to neighborhoods by tall fences.
(d) Segregated, but if a black was well educated and wealthy, they could live in white areas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did blacks depend upon buses?

2. What did the white boys want of Claudette?

3. What did the community do for Claudette?

4. What did the Supreme Court do in 1954?

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

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