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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 is one thing Claudette spent a lot of time doing?
(a) Cleaning white people's homes.
(b) Track and field events.
(c) Praying.
(d) Writing her parents.

2. Who agreed with Claudette's mother?
(a) No one.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) Claudette's grandmother.
(d) The white boys' mother.

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

4. To what point of view does the narration change from the opening of the book?
(a) First person.
(b) It stays the same.
(c) Second person.
(d) Third person.

5. How old was Claudette when she learned about what happens when blacks act out against whites?
(a) 6.
(b) 18.
(c) 12.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the judge do?

2. Who was the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

3. What did the white boys want of Claudette?

4. Who is Delphine?

5. When did Claudette move to the suburbs in Montgomery?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. When was Brown v. Board of Education decided, who decided it and what did it do?

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

5. What happened with Jeremiah Reeves that angered the black community?

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

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

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

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

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

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