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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. Who commanded the buses in Montgomery?
(a) Tough men.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) The KKK.
(d) The police.
2. Who became involved in Jeremiah Reeves' case?
(a) No one as they were too scared.
(b) Amnesty International.
(c) The NAACP.
(d) The Anti-defamation League.
3. Who is Geraldine Nesbitt?
(a) The President of the Women's Political Caucus.
(b) One of Claudia's teachers.
(c) The head of the NAACP in Montgomery.
(d) The President of the Women's Democratic League.
4. What percentage of the city bus riders were black?
(a) 55.
(b) 75.
(c) 38.
(d) 98.
5. Why did Claudette sit in the front of the bus on March 2, 1955?
(a) She was getting off at the very next stop.
(b) She started talking to a white girl who invited her to sit by her.
(c) No whites were there.
(d) She had a cast on her broken foot.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Robinson collect?
2. To what point of view does the narration change from the opening of the book?
3. Who came up while Claudette was still standing with the white boys?
4. What did Claudette do?
5. What did 75 percent of the black men do in the 1950s?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Claudette decide to rebel and why wouldn't the white woman sit down?
2. What did people think of Claudette, what made her curious about the whites and what was she taught about the whites?
3. Where and when did Claudette grow up and what law affected her life and why?
4. When was Brown v. Board of Education decided, who decided it and what did it do?
5. How did Claudette's appeal end up?
6. What happened when the lawyer, Nixon, called Rosa Parks about Claudette?
7. How did the bus drivers enforce the rules and what happened if a black person stood up to the driver?
8. With whom did Claudette go to live when she was a baby and what did she call them?
9. Why didn't Claudette get arrested at the first stop when a policeman came to arrest her?
10. How did Claudette feel on the way home, what did her family fear and what did their Reverend say about the incident?
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