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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. What did the white boys want of Claudette?

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

3. Who is Geraldine Nesbitt?

4. What is one thing blacks and whites could not do together?

5. What happened in Montgomery if the seats were full and a white got on the bus?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Claudette's mother find out where she was and who did she bring with her?

2. How did the bus drivers enforce the rules and what happened if a black person stood up to the driver?

3. What did Robinson remember and what did she begin to do?

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

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

6. Why did Claudette decide to rebel and why wouldn't the white woman sit down?

7. What kept blacks poor and what kind of work did most blacks do?

8. What happened with Jeremiah Reeves that angered the black community?

9. With whom did Claudette go to live when she was a baby and what did she call them?

10. How did the incident on the bus with Claudette start?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Claudette had been hidden away and forgotten, if for no other reason than that she had become pregnant out of wedlock and was therefore not only a disgrace to the black community but no longer even close to a suitable face for the movement.

1. Do you think a person is even more of a heroine or hero when she/he does not receive any recognition for an act of bravery? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think the fact that Claudette became pregnant out of wedlock in any way negates the courage of her actions? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Do you think an unwed mother would be seen differently in the present than in Claudette's younger years? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

The Mayor and city commissioners of Montgomery testified that segregation laws were required for city order. But Judge Rives replied that one cannot command one person to give up their Constitutional rights so that others won't commit a crime.

1. Give the reasons you think the segregation laws were required for city order. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. What do you think Judge Rives meant by his statement about Constitutional rights? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss the irony of the fact that although the white segregationist say that segregation is needed for city order it is those same segregationist who cause the disorder with their prejudice. 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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