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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did Claudette's family stay up that night?
(a) They did not because it was a work night and didn't want to celebrate late.
(b) To celebrate a milestone.
(c) Fear of lynching.
(d) They were constantly harrassed by whites coming by.

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

11. What is one thing Claudette spent a lot of time doing?
(a) Cleaning white people's homes.
(b) Track and field events.
(c) Praying.
(d) Writing her parents.

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

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

14. About what was Claudette curious?
(a) What it would be like to be a white person.
(b) How it came to be that whites had so much power over blacks.
(c) If her white friends thought she was inferior.
(d) Why God created people of different races.

15. Who is Fred Gray?
(a) The judge in Claudette's trial.
(b) Claudette's lawyer.
(c) The prosecutor in Claudette's trial.
(d) Claudette's best friend's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the cops taking Claudette?

2. When did Claudette move to the suburbs in Montgomery?

3. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?

4. Who was the secretary of the Montgomery NAACP at that time?

5. What happens to Delphine in the summer of 1952?

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