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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was Parks' marital status?
(a) Widowed.
(b) Single.
(c) Married.
(d) Divorced.
2. How did Claudette feel when she went on the stand?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Happy.
(d) Confident.
3. What did Jo Ann Robinson write?
(a) A letter to the Governor of Alabama.
(b) A list of grievences.
(c) A boycott pledge.
(d) A letter to the President of the United States.
4. 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) In Birmingham.
(c) Nowhere to be found.
(d) On the lead bus.
5. How many blacks rode the buses on the morning of December 5th?
(a) 0.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.
6. How did King characterize the kind of justice they seek?
(a) Justice that serves all humankind.
(b) Justice that remains under the light of day.
(c) Justice that rolls like a wave over the court system.
(d) Justice that runs down like water.
7. Who testified after lunch?
(a) Dr. King.
(b) The mayor and city commissioners.
(c) Some of the black leaders in the community.
(d) Claudette's teachers.
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 was time for the south to be run by the blacks.
(c) It did not violate the federal constitution.
(d) It was the safest system in the south.
9. For what was Dr. King sentenced to one year of hard labor?
(a) He was not sentenced to any jail time.
(b) Trespassing on city property.
(c) Assaulting a police officer.
(d) Trumped up charges.
10. How did Claudette feel about being an unwed mother?
(a) She was very happy about it.
(b) She was very ashamed.
(c) She just made a mistake.
(d) She was indifferent.
11. What happened on December 2, 1955?
(a) The President sent in the National Guard to prevent riots.
(b) The Govenor declared a State of Emergency.
(c) Claudette and her family move to Detroit.
(d) Thousands signed up for the bus boycott.
12. Why was Claudette shunned having to do with her baby?
(a) He was developmentally slow.
(b) He was light skinned.
(c) She refused to marry his father.
(d) His father was white.
13. Under what name did Claudette start her new school?
(a) Detta Austin.
(b) Claudette Austin.
(c) Claudette Corbin.
(d) Claudette Colvin.
14. Where did Claudette leave Raymond when she went to New York?
(a) With his father.
(b) With her mother.
(c) She took him with her.
(d) With her biological parents.
15. What was held the night of December 5th?
(a) Neighborhood potluck dinners.
(b) A prayer vigil.
(c) A celebratory rally.
(d) Nothing as they wanted to give the police not excuses for harrassment.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the final verdict of the court on Claudette and the others' case?
2. What did the City Lines have to do in response to the boycott?
3. What was given as the reason for the segregation laws?
4. Why did Claudette feel hurt?
5. How did Claudette get to court?
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