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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. Why was Claudette's boyfriend upset with her?
(a) For continuing to attend the NAACP meetings.
(b) For not straightening her hair.
(c) For not being willing to marry him.
(d) For wanting to go to college.

2. What did Robinson's group threaten?
(a) A bus boycott.
(b) Violence against bus drivers.
(c) A boycott of all businesses.
(d) A riot.

3. What did the Montgomery Circuit Court adjudicate about Claudette's conviction?
(a) Declined to review the case.
(b) Dropped all but assault on a police officer.
(c) Upheld the conviction on all the charges.
(d) Dropped all the charges.

4. What percentage of the city bus riders were black?
(a) 75.
(b) 55.
(c) 38.
(d) 98.

5. What did the community do for Claudette?
(a) Sent her to school in the North.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Surrounded her with a protective web of silence.
(d) Paid her lawyers.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Claudette develop a connection to?

2. What did Claudette want to do after studying the constitution?

3. What did the judge do?

4. How were the races interacting during this time?

5. Where were the cops taking Claudette?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Claudette's mother find out where she was and who did she bring with her?

(see the answer keys)

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