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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Claudette want to do after studying the constitution?
(a) Move to another country which actually upheld its constitution.
(b) Rebel.
(c) Become a lawyer.
(d) Write an essay about bus riding rights.

2. What is one thing blacks and whites could not do together?
(a) Watch a sports event in a stadium.
(b) Shop at the same farmer's market.
(c) Ride on the same train.
(d) Play on the same sports team.

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

4. 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 white girl from school who Claudette did not like.
(d) A young white man who was standing.

5. Why did blacks depend upon buses?
(a) To visit friends and family.
(b) To get to the grocery store.
(c) They did not depend on the buses.
(d) To reach their white employers.

6. What did everyone lose interest in except Gray?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Claudette's future.
(c) Appealing Claudette's case further.
(d) A bus boycott.

7. Why did two Montgomery police come on board the bus?
(a) To talk to Claudette and convince her to move.
(b) To talk to the bus driver and tell him he was breaking the law.
(c) They did not come on board the bus.
(d) To arrest Claudette.

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

9. What did Robinson collect?
(a) Money for Claudette's family to move North.
(b) Stories of abuse by bus drivers.
(c) Stories of legal triumphs for black rights.
(d) Money for Claudette's defense.

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

11. What was Claudette's involvement in the NAACP?
(a) She was elected the President.
(b) She quit as she felt betrayed by them.
(c) She attended the meetings sporadically.
(d) She became the youth secretary.

12. Who came up while Claudette was still standing with the white boys?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) The boys' mother.
(d) The sheriff.

13. What happened in Montgomery if the seats were full and a white got on the bus?
(a) 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.
(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) A black had to give up his/her seat.
(d) Nothing.

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

15. Where does Claudette go to live when she is a baby?
(a) With her mother's sister.
(b) With her grandmother.
(c) With her father's sister.
(d) With a great aunt and uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state does Claudette Colvin grow up?

2. How did some of the white people insult Claudette?

3. Who was the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

4. What were blacks' attitudes as Claudette finished high school?

5. What did the judge do?

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