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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 came up while Claudette was still standing with the white boys?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) The boys' mother.

2. What did Claudette want to do after reading about Harriet Tubman?
(a) Pass as white.
(b) Help desegregate the Northern schools where it was possible to do so.
(c) Move to Africa.
(d) Liberate her people.

3. What did some of the white men on the buses carry?
(a) Guns.
(b) Gloves so they didn't have to touch a black person.
(c) Billy clubs.
(d) Knives.

4. How did some of the white people insult Claudette?
(a) By calling her "Coot."
(b) By calling her "Nig."
(c) She doesn't remember being insulted by whites.
(d) By making her walk ten feet behind them.

5. How did the youth group of the NAACP change to become better attended?
(a) Dr. King went out and proselytized.
(b) It was always highly attended.
(c) Through Claudette's influence.
(d) It began to be required in school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the cops taking Claudette?

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

3. What did Reverend Johnson do?

4. Who would not sit in the aisle across from Claudette?

5. Why did Claudette's family stay up that night?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Robinson remember and what did she begin to do?

3. How old was Claudette when she found out what happened when blacks acted up against whites and how did she acquire that knowledge?

4. How did Claudette feel on the way home, what did her family fear and what did their Reverend say about the incident?

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

6. How did Claudette's appeal end up?

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

8. What did the police officers say to Claudette in the patrol car?

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

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

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