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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 became involved in Jeremiah Reeves' case?
(a) Amnesty International.
(b) No one as they were too scared.
(c) The NAACP.
(d) The Anti-defamation League.

2. Who was Mary Louise Smith?
(a) A white girl from the North who comes down to sit with blacks on the buses.
(b) Claudette's best friend.
(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.

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

4. Who was Miss Geraldine Nesbitt?
(a) Claudette's best friend.
(b) One of Claudette's teachers.
(c) The lawyer defending Reeves.
(d) The principal of Washington High.

5. What did Claudette want to do after studying the constitution?
(a) Write an essay about bus riding rights.
(b) Move to another country which actually upheld its constitution.
(c) Become a lawyer.
(d) Rebel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the races interacting during this time?

2. What happens to Delphine in the summer of 1952?

3. How did some of the white people insult Claudette?

4. What did Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka do?

5. What did Reverend Johnson do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did many blacks feel about integration in the schools and how did Claudette feel about it?

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

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

6. What did Claudette say was the reason Reeves' conviction changed her life?

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

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

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

10. How did Claudette's mother find out where she was and who did she bring with her?

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