View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What else could Gray appeal constitutionally?
(a) The charge of the segregation laws.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The charge of assaulting the police officers.
(d) All the charges.

2. 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.

3. Who is Jo Ann Robinson?
(a) Claudette's lawyer.
(b) Claudette's math teacher.
(c) An English professor at Alabama State College.
(d) Claudette's history teacher.

4. Who is Claudette Colvin?
(a) The author of the book.
(b) The white girl whose best friend was black.
(c) The narrator at the opening of the book.
(d) The antagonist.

5. Who is Mr. E. D. Nixon?
(a) A Montgomery circuit court judge.
(b) One of the policemen who arrested Claudette.
(c) A Civil Rights lawyer.
(d) A public prosecutor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the community do for Claudette?

2. What happened to Brooks in 1952?

3. What were blacks' attitudes as Claudette finished high school?

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

5. What did the Montgomery Circuit Court adjudicate about Claudette's conviction?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What happened to a black man named Brooks on a bus in Montgomery?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 814 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample