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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did the Supreme Court do in November?
(a) Delay the case until the spring.
(b) Refuse to hear the case.
(c) Refute the decision in the case.
(d) Upheld the decision in Browder v. Gayle.

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

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

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) Assassinated the black leaders.
(d) Crushed the boycott.

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

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

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

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

12. How many blacks rode the buses on the morning of December 5th?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 0.
(d) 2.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Parks' marital status?

2. Why did Claudette not have an abortion?

3. What was said about Parks' status in the community?

4. Where did Claudette speak in 2005?

5. What were the charges against Parks?

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