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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. How many people heard Claudette speak in 2005?
(a) Two hundred.
(b) Two thousand.
(c) A thousand.
(d) Four hundred.

2. Where did Claudette go when she left Birmingham?
(a) Home to Montgomery.
(b) To her aunt's house in Louisiana.
(c) To New York City.
(d) To Mississipi.

3. What did Claudette need after the boycott ended?
(a) A father for her son.
(b) A place to live.
(c) Work and money.
(d) To finish school.

4. What did Claudette have time to do when she was alone in Birmingham?
(a) Find a boyfriend.
(b) Study more in school.
(c) Contemplate her life.
(d) Get to know her biological parents.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what was Dr. King sentenced to one year of hard labor?

2. What kind of parents were Claudette's biological mother and father?

3. What did the Supreme Court do in November?

4. What does Claudette think she did that Parks could not have done?

5. How many blacks rode the buses on the morning of December 5th?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Claudette afraid after the boycott ended, who did she meet and what kind of help did she need but not receive?

2. When did Claudette speak to the students at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama? What did Claudette do in 1957?

3. What did Gray do as a second front for the bus boycott?

4. What did the three judges think about the court case and what was the end result?

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

6. How did Gray begin his arguments, what did the prosecutor accuse the plaintiffs of and what did they say to his accusations?

7. How did the blacks get around Montgomery during the bus boycott?

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

9. What was happening with the bus line by late January and how did the city leaders respond to that?

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

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