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

2. What happens to Delphine in the summer of 1952?
(a) She contracted polio.
(b) She contracted mumps.
(c) She went back to stay with her biological parents.
(d) She is arrested.

3. What did Claudette feel about the blacks' self image?
(a) That they were too proud.
(b) She did not express an opinion about that.
(c) That they had a good, strong self image.
(d) That they hated themselves.

4. What did the white boys want of Claudette?
(a) To steal her dog.
(b) To see her hands.
(c) To steal her coat.
(d) To take her to the movies.

5. What did the driver say to Claudette?
(a) He had to put her on another bus since he forgot to stop at her stop.
(b) Claudette did not need to get up since her foot was broken.
(c) She needed to get off the bus and take another since it was broken down.
(d) He needed her row of seats.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state does Claudette Colvin grow up?

2. When does Claudette next see her sister Delphine?

3. What is one thing Jim Crow did to the blacks?

4. Where does Claudette go to live when she is a baby?

5. What does Fred Gray urge?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did Nesbitt teach Claudette about black history?

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

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

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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