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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was Mary Louise Smith?
(a) A young black girl who is severely beaten for speaking for civil rights in a park.
(b) Claudette's best friend.
(c) A white girl from the North who comes down to sit with blacks on the buses.
(d) A young black teenager who deified bus segregation.

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

4. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?
(a) Killing a police officer.
(b) Killing a black child.
(c) Raping a white woman.
(d) Raping a black woman.

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

6. In 1950, what percent of black women were maids for white families?
(a) 12.
(b) 89.
(c) 60.
(d) 22.

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

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

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

10. For what was Claudette deemed unfit?
(a) For a college scholarship.
(b) To go North and talk to activists.
(c) For a trip to Washington, D. C.
(d) To be the face of a movement.

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

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

13. 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) The police called.
(d) Claudette called her and asked for her to come pick her up.

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

15. Of what group is Jo Ann Robinson a member?
(a) DAR.
(b) Toastmistress.
(c) Women's Political Council.
(d) Women's Democratic League.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what was Claudette curious?

2. Why was it hard for Claudette to be popular at Booker T. Washington High?

3. What did Claudette feel about the blacks' self image?

4. Who is Mrs. Hamilton?

5. How many charges did Claudette face?

(see the answer keys)

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