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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of parents were Claudette's biological mother and father?
(a) Very strict.
(b) About average strictness.
(c) Somewhat relaxed.
(d) They didn't care what she did.

2. How did Claudette finish high school?
(a) She stayed with her biological parents.
(b) She lived with the Abernathys.
(c) She never finished school.
(d) She obtained a GED.

3. How old was Parks at the time of her arrest?
(a) Early 20s.
(b) Early 40s.
(c) Early 70s.
(d) Late 60s.

4. How did King characterize the kind of justice they seek?
(a) Justice that serves all humankind.
(b) Justice that runs down like water.
(c) Justice that remains under the light of day.
(d) Justice that rolls like a wave over the court system.

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

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

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

8. What was the name of Claudette's second son?
(a) Travis.
(b) Nathan.
(c) Randy.
(d) Martin.

9. Why was Claudette shunned having to do with her baby?
(a) She refused to marry his father.
(b) His father was white.
(c) He was light skinned.
(d) He was developmentally slow.

10. What did Gray say segregation violated?
(a) Federal guidelines.
(b) Equal protection clause.
(c) Montgomery city law.
(d) Common sense.

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

12. Why was Claudette kicked out of school?
(a) She refused to obey the principal about the boycott.
(b) She got married.
(c) She started showing her pregnancy.
(d) She had a felony record.

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

14. How did Claudette's parents feel about her as they left the court house?
(a) Embarrassed.
(b) Upset.
(c) Proud.
(d) Angry.

15. What does Claudette think she did that Parks could not have done?
(a) Worked for civil rights while pregnant.
(b) Made the first step for justice.
(c) Brought many young people into the Civil Rights movement.
(d) Won the court case in Browder v. Gayle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Claudette sit at the rally?

2. What was the name of the prosecutor on case?

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

4. How did Claudette's mother's employers feel about the boycott?

5. What kind of changes did black leaders want?

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