Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much did blacks make in relation to whites?
(a) Two-thirds.
(b) Four-fifths.
(c) Half.
(d) One-third.

2. What were the professional jobs blacks were allowed?
(a) Pastor or teacher.
(b) Doctor or pastor.
(c) Lawyer or dentist.
(d) Doctor or dentist.

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

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

5. What does the judge decide?
(a) That Claudette is innocent of all charges.
(b) That Claudette is guilty of 2 of the charges.
(c) That Claudette is only guilty of breaking the segregation laws.
(d) That Claudette is guilty of all charges.

6. What made Claudette angry when she would go to downtown Montgomery?
(a) That the buses the blacks wrote were constantly breaking down.
(b) That the buses were only air conditioned in the white sections.
(c) That she could not try on clothes.
(d) That there were racists signs in store windows.

7. Why did Claudette sit in the front of the bus on March 2, 1955?
(a) She was getting off at the very next stop.
(b) She had a cast on her broken foot.
(c) No whites were there.
(d) She started talking to a white girl who invited her to sit by her.

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

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

10. To what point of view does the narration change from the opening of the book?
(a) Second person.
(b) It stays the same.
(c) Third person.
(d) First person.

11. What does the person who came up to Claudette do?
(a) Arrest Claudette.
(b) Arrest the boys.
(c) Pulls Claudette aside to say something to her in private.
(d) Slaps Claudette.

12. Why was it hard for Claudette to be popular at Booker T. Washington High?
(a) She was so smart.
(b) She was light skinned and had straight hair.
(c) She was actually very popular.
(d) Her parents were well to do and her friends were envious.

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

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

15. What did many of the black people think of Claudette?
(a) That she was emotional and feisty.
(b) That she was smarter than the rest of them.
(c) That she was unstable.
(d) That she was an excellent figurehead for the movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened at the next stop the bus made?

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

3. Who is Mr. E. D. Nixon?

4. Who is Delphine?

5. What did Claudette want to do after reading about Harriet Tubman?

(see the answer keys)

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