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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 people say about Claudette when she left Montgomery?
(a) She was crazy.
(b) She was brave.
(c) She didn't care about civil rights.
(d) She was stupid.

2. What organization helped to create an alternative transport system?
(a) Blacks for an Equal Montgomery (BEM).
(b) Association for Black Civil Rights (ABCR).
(c) Montgomery Association of Negro Freedom Fighters. (MANFF).
(d) Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA).

3. What kind of parents were Claudette's biological mother and father?
(a) About average strictness.
(b) Somewhat relaxed.
(c) They didn't care what she did.
(d) Very strict.

4. How did Claudette feel about the Civil Rights movement when she was in Birmingham?
(a) She was angry at it.
(b) She wanted to be a part of it.
(c) She was indifferent.
(d) She wanted it to succeed but had no desire to help.

5. What was the final verdict of the court on Claudette and the others' case?
(a) It would go on to another court.
(b) Segregation was legal.
(c) Segregation was legal on buses but not in the schools.
(d) Segregation on buses was abolished.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Claudette have time to do when she was alone in Birmingham?

3. What was held the night of December 5th?

4. Why was Claudette shunned having to do with her baby?

5. When was Rosa Parks arrested?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where did Claudette's family take her to go back to school and what was the situation like there?

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

4. What did Claudette feel about her new home, how long did she stay and why did she leave?

5. How did the boycott protesters feel about the court's decision and why? What did the court begin to receive?

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

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

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

9. Why was Claudette considered a bad choice to be the "poster person" for a bus boycott? What did she say about her problem?

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

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