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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. In what decades are her childhood years?
(a) 1920-30s.
(b) 1930-40s.
(c) 1950-60s.
(d) 1940-50s.

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

3. What did the Supreme Court do in 1954?
(a) Threw out Reeves' case.
(b) Upheld Reeves' sentence.
(c) Upheld Reeves' conviction.
(d) Declined to consider it.

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

5. When did Claudette move to the suburbs in Montgomery?
(a) At age 5.
(b) At age 8.
(c) At age 15.
(d) At age 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the secretary of the Montgomery NAACP at that time?

2. What did the community do for Claudette?

3. Who is Fred Gray?

4. Why did blacks depend upon buses?

5. From where did Geraldine Nesbitt hold an M.A.?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Geraldine Nesbitt, how was she educated and what was her influence on Claudette?

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

3. Who was Jo Ann Robinson, how did she work for blacks, and how did she feel about Claudette's action?

4. How did Claudette's appeal end up?

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

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

7. What happened when the lawyer, Nixon, called Rosa Parks about Claudette?

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

9. How was riding the bus rules set up for black or white persons?

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

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