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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Claudette go to court the second time?
(a) June, 1956.
(b) October, 1955.
(c) January, 1957.
(d) May, 1956.

2. What did Dr. King encourage people to do?
(a) Ride the buses.
(b) Attack the bus drivers.
(c) Provoke the white separatists.
(d) Be loving and peaceful.

3. Where did Claudette go when she left Birmingham?
(a) Home to Montgomery.
(b) To Mississipi.
(c) To her aunt's house in Louisiana.
(d) To New York City.

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

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

6. What is said of Parks' skin color?
(a) She was medium skinned.
(b) She could pass as white.
(c) She was light skinned.
(d) She was very dark skinned.

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

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

9. How much did Parks have to pay?
(a) 10 dollars.
(b) 100 dollars.
(c) 25 dollars.
(d) Nothing.

10. How did the black community feel after Parks' arrest?
(a) Pacified.
(b) Confused.
(c) Angrier.
(d) Indifferent.

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

12. How long did the three judges take to make their decision?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Four hours.
(c) Ten minutes.
(d) Six months.

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

14. What did King say when Claudette met him?
(a) He complimented her.
(b) He upbraided her for her pregnancy.
(c) He told her to go back to school.
(d) She never met him.

15. What did people say about Claudette when she left Montgomery?
(a) She was stupid.
(b) She didn't care about civil rights.
(c) She was brave.
(d) She was crazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the youngest of the three federal judges hearing Claudette's case?

2. What organization helped to create an alternative transport system?

3. Where was Claudette when the first symbolic bus rides were taken after the boycott ended?

4. When would the Supreme Court consider the case?

5. What was Parks permitted to do?

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