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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 the first three plaintiffs testify to when Gray presented them?
(a) Being beatened by police officers.
(b) Sitting in jail without being charged.
(c) Their poor treatment on the buses.
(d) Being dragged off a bus.

2. Who testified after lunch?
(a) Some of the black leaders in the community.
(b) Dr. King.
(c) The mayor and city commissioners.
(d) Claudette's teachers.

3. To where did Reverend Abernathy invite Claudette?
(a) To live with him and his family.
(b) To a celebration at a church.
(c) To a reception.
(d) To the Kings' house.

4. How did Claudette get to court?
(a) Her family took her.
(b) She walked.
(c) She rode with Fred Gray.
(d) She rode a bus.

5. What did Parks do for a living?
(a) A nurses' aide.
(b) A maid.
(c) A cook.
(d) A seamstress.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did King characterize the kind of justice they seek?

2. How old was Parks at the time of her arrest?

3. Where was Claudette when the first symbolic bus rides were taken after the boycott ended?

4. When would the Supreme Court consider the case?

5. How did Claudette's parents feel about her as they left the court house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Mayor of Montgomery say about the segregation and what was Judge Rives response?

2. Why did Claudette leave school and why did she feel left out of the bus boycott movement?

3. What did Claudette do when she returned to Montgomery?

4. How and when did the bus boycott get started?

5. How did the segregationists fight the bus boycott?

6. How long did the judges take with their decision and what was Mayor Gayle's response?

7. What did Claudette do about the celebration?

8. What did Gray question Claudette about and what did the prosecutor try to do? How did Claudette do in court?

9. How did Claudette become known again in the 1970's and how did she feel about that?

10. What did Martin Luther King see on December 5th? What was held to commemorate it?

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