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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 Gray say segregation violated?
(a) Equal protection clause.
(b) Federal guidelines.
(c) Common sense.
(d) Montgomery city law.

2. How long did Claudette stay in Birmingham?
(a) Six months.
(b) A month.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Five days.

3. What was Parks permitted to do?
(a) Go home and promise to come back to court.
(b) Call her family.
(c) Leave jail the next morning for an hour to get breakfast.
(d) Sit in the reception room instead of a jail cell.

4. Under what name did Claudette start her new school?
(a) Claudette Corbin.
(b) Detta Austin.
(c) Claudette Austin.
(d) Claudette Colvin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the City Lines have to do in response to the boycott?

2. Why did Parks' arrest spark such a reaction?

3. What happened on December 2, 1955?

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

5. What started happening to churches in the summer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why was Parks considered a good figurehead for the bus boycott?

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

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

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 happened to Rosa Parks when she was arrested and why did this make the black community angry?

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