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

2. Who did Claudette meet at Rosa Parks' home one evening?
(a) Dr. King.
(b) A black man 10 years older than she.
(c) Her future husband.
(d) Medgar Evers.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Robinson collect?

2. How many charges did Claudette face?

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

4. Who was Miss Geraldine Nesbitt?

5. What did the driver say to Claudette?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Claudette's appeal end up?

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

3. What did Claudette say to the two police officers who arrested her and what did she do when they pulled her off the bus?

4. What did Nesbitt teach Claudette about black history?

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

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

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

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

9. What did Claudette find out about her intelligence in school, why wasn't she popular and what did she think about the way blacks perceived themselves?

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

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