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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Gayle say about the case?
(a) The city would appeal.
(b) The city would obey.
(c) The city was happy to be vindicated.
(d) He would resign his position.

2. What did Claudette notice on the bus boycott?
(a) Her name was misspelled.
(b) Her name was at the top and had a star by it.
(c) Her name was near the bottom of the list of thousands.
(d) Her name was left off.

3. How many people heard Claudette speak in 2005?
(a) A thousand.
(b) Four hundred.
(c) Two thousand.
(d) Two hundred.

4. Who gave the main speech?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) W. E. B. Dubois.
(c) Dr. Martin Luther King.
(d) Medgar Evers.

5. Where did Claudette speak in 2005?
(a) The Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.
(b) Booker T. Washington Magnet High School.
(c) Howard University.
(d) The NAACP national meeting.

6. Where did Claudette become a nurse?
(a) She was a home health care aide.
(b) At the Seven Day Adventist hospital.
(c) At a nursing home.
(d) A Catholic hospital.

7. What organization helped to create an alternative transport system?
(a) Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA).
(b) Blacks for an Equal Montgomery (BEM).
(c) Association for Black Civil Rights (ABCR).
(d) Montgomery Association of Negro Freedom Fighters. (MANFF).

8. How long did Claudette stay in Birmingham?
(a) Five days.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Six months.
(d) A month.

9. What did the court receive after its decision?
(a) A letter bomb.
(b) Hate mail.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Letters of praise.

10. How did Claudette feel about the Civil Rights movement when she was in Birmingham?
(a) She was indifferent.
(b) She was angry at it.
(c) She wanted to be a part of it.
(d) She wanted it to succeed but had no desire to help.

11. Why was Claudette considered a political liability at this time?
(a) Her family was too well to do for the poorer blacks to relate to her.
(b) She was too timid.
(c) She was unmarried and pregnant.
(d) She was too young and they didn't want it to seem she was controlled by the NAACP.

12. Why did Gray put Claudette last on the stand?
(a) She was the youngest one.
(b) She was late arriving at the court house.
(c) She was the oldest one.
(d) Her story was the most powerful one.

13. Under what name did Claudette start her new school?
(a) Claudette Corbin.
(b) Claudette Colvin.
(c) Detta Austin.
(d) Claudette Austin.

14. What was Parks' marital status?
(a) Married.
(b) Single.
(c) Divorced.
(d) Widowed.

15. What did the prosecutor try to get the women to admit?
(a) That they had not paid the fare on the bus.
(b) That they were directed by Dr. King.
(c) That they attacked the police officers first.
(d) That they were immoral.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the charges against Parks?

2. Who did Claudette meet at lunch at the court house?

3. For what was she known as far as the NAACP?

4. Why were there reporters coming to Montgomery?

5. What kind of parents were Claudette's biological mother and father?

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