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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Robinson collect?
(a) Money for Claudette's defense.
(b) Money for Claudette's family to move North.
(c) Stories of abuse by bus drivers.
(d) Stories of legal triumphs for black rights.

2. Where is Claudette born?
(a) Pensacola.
(b) Shreveport.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Mobile.

3. What did this practice mentioned in question 22 violate?
(a) The county bus law.
(b) The city bus law.
(c) The State bus law.
(d) The Federal bus law.

4. What were the professional jobs blacks were allowed?
(a) Doctor or dentist.
(b) Doctor or pastor.
(c) Pastor or teacher.
(d) Lawyer or dentist.

5. How does Claudette's mother learn about where she is?
(a) Claudette called her and asked for her to come pick her up.
(b) The police called.
(c) School friends on the bus told her.
(d) A lawyer came and got her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Claudette do to stop looking white?

2. In what decades are her childhood years?

3. When does Claudette next see her sister Delphine?

4. Who is Delphine?

5. Who did Claudette call "mom and dad"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kept blacks poor and what kind of work did most blacks do?

2. What did Nesbitt teach Claudette about black history?

3. With whom did Claudette go to live when she was a baby and what did she call them?

4. When was Brown v. Board of Education decided, who decided it and what did it do?

5. What did Claudette say to the two police officers who arrested her and what did she do when they pulled her off the bus?

6. Where and when did Claudette grow up and what law affected her life and why?

7. Who was Claudette's lawyer, what did he do for her defense and what were the charges?

8. What happened with Jeremiah Reeves that angered the black community?

9. Where was Claudette taken by the officers and what did she do?

10. How did Claudette's appeal end up?

(see the answer keys)

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