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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 were blacks' attitudes as Claudette finished high school?
(a) It is not known.
(b) Apathetic.
(c) Increasingly negative.
(d) Hopeful.

2. What does Claudette do to stop looking white?
(a) Started braiding her hair in dreadlocks.
(b) Started wearing more African style clothes.
(c) Stopped straightening her hair.
(d) Nothing.

3. Who was Mary Louise Smith?
(a) Claudette's best friend.
(b) A white girl from the North who comes down to sit with blacks on the buses.
(c) A young black teenager who deified bus segregation.
(d) A young black girl who is severely beaten for speaking for civil rights in a park.

4. Who commanded the buses in Montgomery?
(a) The police.
(b) Tough men.
(c) The KKK.
(d) The sheriff.

5. What happened to Brooks in 1952?
(a) He was shot by a police officer for standing up to a driver.
(b) She was fined.
(c) She was barred from the buses for the rest of her life and had to quit her job.
(d) He was hit by a black woman who refused to give up her seat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sometimes happened if a black person stood up to a driver?

2. In 1950, what percent of black women were maids for white families?

3. Who is Fred Gray?

4. What did everyone lose interest in except Gray?

5. How old was Claudette when she learned about what happens when blacks act out against whites?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Claudette change under Nesbitt's mentoring and what did she read that made her what to help the black people?

2. Why did Claudette decide to rebel and why wouldn't the white woman sit down?

3. Why didn't Claudette get arrested at the first stop when a policeman came to arrest her?

4. What did people think of Claudette, what made her curious about the whites and what was she taught about the whites?

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

6. How did the incident on the bus with Claudette start?

7. What idea was beginning to grow and why hadn't it been done yet?

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

9. What did Claudette face in the legal system and what did her family do to help her?

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

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