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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mrs. Hamilton?

2. What did Claudette feel about the blacks' self image?

3. Why was it hard for Claudette to be popular at Booker T. Washington High?

4. Why did Claudette's family stay up that night?

5. How did the blacks feel after Claudette's conviction?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Claudette's lawyer, what did he do for her defense and what were the charges?

2. How did Claudette feel on the way home, what did her family fear and what did their Reverend say about the incident?

3. Where and when did Claudette grow up and what law affected her life and why?

4. Who was Geraldine Nesbitt, how was she educated and what was her influence on Claudette?

5. How old was Claudette when she found out what happened when blacks acted up against whites and how did she acquire that knowledge?

6. How did many blacks feel about integration in the schools and how did Claudette feel about it?

7. How did Claudette's appeal end up?

8. What did Nesbitt teach Claudette about black history?

9. What did the police officers say to Claudette in the patrol car?

10. What did people think of Claudette, what made her curious about the whites and what was she taught about the whites?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. Why do you think it is important that this book was written? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think this book did what the author set out to do? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Explain why you might or might not read another book by this author about another real life person. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Claudette notes that she started crying but maintained that sitting in that spot was her right. The two policemen then dragged her off the bus, and Claudette went limp, refusing to fight back. On the police ride, the cops ridiculed her and called her a "nigger bitch". They said they were taking her to a woman's prison in Atmore, despite the fact that she was fifteen

1. Discuss Claudette's action of going limp when the police officers pulled her off the bus in terms of pacifism and protest. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Discuss the problems of racism in police officers. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Let's assume that the police officer degrading Claudette in the car did so out of fear. Why do you think fear can cause racism. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

In 1950, sixty percent of black women in Montgomery were maids for white families and seventy-five percent of black men did unskilled labor. Blacks made half as much as whites.

1. Discuss the changes in black person's employment status from 1950 to the present. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. In India due to the caste system, a member of the untouchable caste can work only in jobs considered immoral or dirty, such as care of the dead for burial. Pretending that an untouchable is born who has the I.Q. of Einstein, discuss the human potential wasted for that person to be allowed to only collect garbage or bury the dead. Relate this idea to blacks in the 1950's being allowed only manual jobs in the south. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss how knowing one is only able to have lower class jobs would affect a child's motivation to do well in school. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

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