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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Claudette say about sex?
(a) She learned about sex in gym class.
(b) She does not say anything about sex.
(c) She knew almost nothing.
(d) She knew she should wait for marriage, but the man pressured her.

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

4. What did Parks do for a living?
(a) A nurses' aide.
(b) A seamstress.
(c) A cook.
(d) A maid.

5. When would the Supreme Court consider the case?
(a) Next spring.
(b) In December.
(c) The following month.
(d) In the fall.

6. How did Claudette feel about being an unwed mother?
(a) She was indifferent.
(b) She was very happy about it.
(c) She just made a mistake.
(d) She was very ashamed.

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

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

9. For what was she known as far as the NAACP?
(a) For her placid nature.
(b) For her fiery temper.
(c) For her usually retiring personality.
(d) For her activism.

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

11. What worried Claudette more than the court decision?
(a) Being a teenager with a baby.
(b) Her mother's illness.
(c) The kids at school.
(d) Being lynched.

12. How did Claudette get to court?
(a) She rode with Fred Gray.
(b) She walked.
(c) Her family took her.
(d) She rode a bus.

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

14. What kind of changes did black leaders want?
(a) They only wanted segregation on the bus lines to stop.
(b) Modest ones.
(c) They asked for a complete rewriting of city law codes.
(d) Big changes all around.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Claudette considered a political liability at this time?

2. What was Parks' marital status?

3. How did Claudette feel about the bus boycott?

4. How did the black community feel after Parks' arrest?

5. What did Gray say segregation violated?

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