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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 Dr. King encourage people to do?
(a) Be loving and peaceful.
(b) Provoke the white separatists.
(c) Attack the bus drivers.
(d) Ride the buses.

2. How did Claudette's parents feel about her as they left the court house?
(a) Upset.
(b) Embarrassed.
(c) Proud.
(d) Angry.

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

4. What did Judge Rives say about segregation?
(a) It was time for the south to be run by the blacks.
(b) One person shouldn't have to give up rights so another doesn't commit a crime.
(c) It did not violate the federal constitution.
(d) It was the safest system in the south.

5. How long did the three judges take to make their decision?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Ten minutes.
(c) Six months.
(d) Four hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what name did Claudette start her new school?

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

3. When did Claudette go to court the second time?

4. What did people say about Claudette when she left Montgomery?

5. How did Claudette get to court?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened during the summer with the bus boycott?

2. Who were the judges on Claudette's court case?

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

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

5. When was Claudette's baby born, what was his name and what did she do while waiting for the lawsuit?

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

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

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

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

10. What did vow to do when the Supreme Court upheld the court's decision and what happened finally? Where was Claudette on the first day the blacks began to ride the bus again?

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