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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. What changed as the bus moved onward on its route?
(a) The bus filled and a white woman was standing.
(b) The bus broke down in an all-white neighborhood.
(c) The police stopped the bus looking for a fugitive.
(d) The bus did not stop at her stop.

2. Who would not sit in the aisle across from Claudette?
(a) The white woman who was standing.
(b) A young white man who was standing.
(c) A white girl from school who Claudette did not like.
(d) A black girl from school who did not like Claudette.

3. What does the narrator say controlled Claudette's life?
(a) Her neighborhood boundaries.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Jim Crow.
(d) The school she attends.

4. About what was Claudette curious?
(a) If her white friends thought she was inferior.
(b) Why God created people of different races.
(c) What it would be like to be a white person.
(d) How it came to be that whites had so much power over blacks.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Claudette next see her sister Delphine?

2. What is one thing blacks and whites could not do together?

3. What did 75 percent of the black men do in the 1950s?

4. Who is Fred Gray?

5. Who is Delphine?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happened to Claudette in the black community following her incident and how did some feel about it?

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

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

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

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