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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Parks do for a living?
(a) A nurses' aide.
(b) A seamstress.
(c) A cook.
(d) A maid.

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

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

5. Who was the youngest of the three federal judges hearing Claudette's case?
(a) Seybourn Lynne.
(b) Richard Rives.
(c) It is not known.
(d) Frank M. Johnson.

6. Which judge did not agree with the other two?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Rives.
(c) They all three agreed.
(d) Lynne.

7. What did Claudette need after the boycott ended?
(a) Work and money.
(b) To finish school.
(c) A place to live.
(d) A father for her son.

8. Who gave the main speech?
(a) W. E. B. Dubois.
(b) Medgar Evers.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Dr. Martin Luther King.

9. 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.

10. What did Jo Ann Robinson write?
(a) A boycott pledge.
(b) A list of grievences.
(c) A letter to the Governor of Alabama.
(d) A letter to the President of the United States.

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

12. For what was Dr. King sentenced to one year of hard labor?
(a) Trespassing on city property.
(b) He was not sentenced to any jail time.
(c) Assaulting a police officer.
(d) Trumped up charges.

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

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

15. How did King characterize the kind of justice they seek?
(a) Justice that rolls like a wave over the court system.
(b) Justice that runs down like water.
(c) Justice that serves all humankind.
(d) Justice that remains under the light of day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Claudette meet at lunch at the court house?

2. What kind of parents were Claudette's biological mother and father?

3. Why did Claudette not have an abortion?

4. What was the name of Claudette's second son?

5. What did the Supreme Court do in November?

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