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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 organization helped to create an alternative transport system?

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

3. Where did Claudette go when she left Birmingham?

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

5. Who did the segregationist single out as being the cause of all the problems in Montgomery?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did the Mayor of Montgomery say about the segregation and what was Judge Rives response?

6. What did Claudette do about the celebration?

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 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 during the summer with the bus boycott?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Claudette told no one of her past. She watched Rosa Parks' fame grow and wondered if anyone remembered her. But in 1975, a Birmingham newspaper reporter, Frank Sikora, contacted her after doing library research. He wrote a story about her, and then several more stories were written after that.

1. How would you feel and what would you do if you were in Claudette's shoes? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Why do you think it is important that Frank Sikora did a story on Claudette? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Defend Rosa Parks actions giving logical reasons for her to do what she did. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Rumors destroyed Claudette's reputation, though. She was also branded "unfit" to be the face of a movement.

1. Often when someone does something extraordinary others will seek to criticize or bring that person down. Why do you think people do that? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. What kind of rumors did you think people were spreading about Claudette, according to the book? Do you believe any of the accusations about her were important? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Do you think the leaders of the movement were correct in declaring Claudette unfit to be the face of the movement? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

The segregationists continued to resist changing anything for the boycott. Many singled out Martin Luther King to blame for "stirring up trouble" and the like. He had been attacked several times. Segregationists had also used an obscure anti-boycott law to have many black leaders arrested, including King and Parks.

1. Why do you think the segregationists continued to resist change? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Why do you think Martin Luther King was singled out by the segregationists? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. When a law is wrong such as the anti-boycott law, do you think people should still obey it? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

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