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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Claudette when the first symbolic bus rides were taken after the boycott ended?
(a) She was at the television station for an interview.
(b) On the lead bus.
(c) In Birmingham.
(d) Nowhere to be found.

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

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

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

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

6. What started happening to churches in the summer?
(a) Being bombed.
(b) They were set up as first aid stations.
(c) Being filled to capacity.
(d) The city started condemning the church buildings.

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

8. What was Parks' marital status?
(a) Widowed.
(b) Married.
(c) Single.
(d) Divorced.

9. What did the first three plaintiffs testify to when Gray presented them?
(a) Being dragged off a bus.
(b) Being beatened by police officers.
(c) Their poor treatment on the buses.
(d) Sitting in jail without being charged.

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

11. What was the final verdict of the court on Claudette and the others' case?
(a) Segregation on buses was abolished.
(b) Segregation was legal on buses but not in the schools.
(c) It would go on to another court.
(d) Segregation was legal.

12. Who did the segregationist single out as being the cause of all the problems in Montgomery?
(a) Martin Luther King.
(b) Fred Gray.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Claudette Colvin.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who testified after lunch?

3. What is said of Parks' skin color?

4. What did Gayle say about the case?

5. Under what name did Claudette start her new school?

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