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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Claudette feel hurt?
(a) She was told she was a bad example.
(b) Because she was ignored by the boycott planners.
(c) She was reviled for her arrest.
(d) She was lectured for yelling when arrested.

2. What were the charges against Parks?
(a) Disorderly conduct and violating the bus segregation laws.
(b) Violating the bus segregation laws.
(c) Disorderly conduct.
(d) Disobeying a lawful order.

3. Who was the youngest of the three federal judges hearing Claudette's case?
(a) Seybourn Lynne.
(b) It is not known.
(c) Richard Rives.
(d) Frank M. Johnson.

4. How did Claudette's mother's employers feel about the boycott?
(a) Curious.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Angry.
(d) Sympathetic.

5. What was Parks permitted to do?
(a) Go home and promise to come back to court.
(b) Sit in the reception room instead of a jail cell.
(c) Call her family.
(d) Leave jail the next morning for an hour to get breakfast.

6. Where did Claudette leave Raymond when she went to New York?
(a) She took him with her.
(b) With her biological parents.
(c) With her mother.
(d) With his father.

7. What did city officials continue to do in the summer of 1956?
(a) Appealed the court case.
(b) Reconciled with the black leaders.
(c) Crushed the boycott.
(d) Assassinated the black leaders.

8. What did Claudette have time to do when she was alone in Birmingham?
(a) Study more in school.
(b) Contemplate her life.
(c) Get to know her biological parents.
(d) Find a boyfriend.

9. What did Judge Rives say about segregation?
(a) It was time for the south to be run by the blacks.
(b) It was the safest system in the south.
(c) One person shouldn't have to give up rights so another doesn't commit a crime.
(d) It did not violate the federal constitution.

10. What did segregationists use to arrest black leaders in Montgomery?
(a) An obscure anti-boycott law.
(b) Crooked judges.
(c) Planted evidence.
(d) Private detectives.

11. What did the City Lines have to do in response to the boycott?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Lower fares.
(c) Raise the cost of a ticket.
(d) Shut down bus lines and lay off drivers.

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

13. Who first dug up Claudette's story in 1975?
(a) Tom Pastre.
(b) Frank Sikora.
(c) Cecelia Kitenger.
(d) Peter Johnson.

14. How did Claudette feel when she went on the stand?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Happy.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Confident.

15. What was given as the reason for the segregation laws?
(a) Required for city order.
(b) The Negroes had asked for segregation.
(c) It was the way it was always done.
(d) Was sanctioned by God.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many blacks rode the buses on the morning of December 5th?

2. How did Claudette's parents feel about her as they left the court house?

3. How did Claudette feel about the Civil Rights movement when she was in Birmingham?

4. What did Dr. King encourage people to do?

5. What is said of Parks' skin color?

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