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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did Claudette feel about the bus boycott?
(a) Enthusiastic.
(b) Angry.
(c) She thought it was the wrong approach.
(d) Left out.

7. How did Claudette's parents feel about her as they left the court house?
(a) Angry.
(b) Proud.
(c) Upset.
(d) Embarrassed.

8. Who did Claudette meet at lunch at the court house?
(a) Dr. King.
(b) Mary Louise.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) Rosa Parks.

9. To where did Reverend Abernathy invite Claudette?
(a) To the Kings' house.
(b) To a reception.
(c) To live with him and his family.
(d) To a celebration at a church.

10. How did Claudette finish high school?
(a) She never finished school.
(b) She lived with the Abernathys.
(c) She stayed with her biological parents.
(d) She obtained a GED.

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

12. What did Gayle say about the case?
(a) The city would obey.
(b) The city would appeal.
(c) He would resign his position.
(d) The city was happy to be vindicated.

13. What was given as the reason for the segregation laws?
(a) The Negroes had asked for segregation.
(b) Required for city order.
(c) It was the way it was always done.
(d) Was sanctioned by God.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Parks act when she was arrested?

2. What worried Claudette more than the court decision?

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

4. What did King say when Claudette met him?

5. What did city officials continue to do in the summer of 1956?

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