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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Claudette's mother learn about where she is?
(a) School friends on the bus told her.
(b) The police called.
(c) Claudette called her and asked for her to come pick her up.
(d) A lawyer came and got her mother.

2. What percentage of the city bus riders were black?
(a) 75.
(b) 55.
(c) 98.
(d) 38.

3. What happened in Montgomery if the seats were full and a white got on the bus?
(a) A black had to give up his/her seat.
(b) The bus driver would move the black section back a row on the right so the white did not have to sit near a black.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The bus driver would move the black section back a row on the left so the white did not have to sit near a black.

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

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

6. 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.

7. Who was the secretary of the Montgomery NAACP at that time?
(a) Madeleine Scott.
(b) Drusilla Parker.
(c) Joseph Sibel.
(d) Rosa Parks.

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

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

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

11. Who did Claudette call "mom and dad"?
(a) Her grandparents.
(b) Her maternal aunt and uncle.
(c) Her great aunt and uncle.
(d) Her biological parents.

12. What changed as the bus moved onward on its route?
(a) The police stopped the bus looking for a fugitive.
(b) The bus broke down in an all-white neighborhood.
(c) The bus filled and a white woman was standing.
(d) The bus did not stop at her stop.

13. What happens to Delphine in the summer of 1952?
(a) She contracted polio.
(b) She went back to stay with her biological parents.
(c) She contracted mumps.
(d) She is arrested.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did everyone lose interest in except Gray?

2. Who was Miss Geraldine Nesbitt?

3. When does Claudette next see her sister Delphine?

4. Who is Jo Ann Robinson?

5. Who became involved in Jeremiah Reeves' case?

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