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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 Gayle say about the case?

2. Who was the youngest of the three federal judges hearing Claudette's case?

3. Where did Claudette sit at the rally?

4. Who greeted Claudette at the courthouse?

5. What was Parks' marital status?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Gray begin his arguments, what did the prosecutor accuse the plaintiffs of and what did they say to his accusations?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How long did the judges take with their decision and what was Mayor Gayle's response?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Segregation laws made a lot of difference on the bus because blacks have to sit in the back. Blacks depended on buses to reach their white employers. In Montgomery, if seats were full and a white person came in, a black person had to get up. It did not matter how old, sick or young the black person was or how many blacks sat in a seat.

1. Discuss what you think the reason for segregation was in terms of holding power over others. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Discuss the mechanism of oppression in terms of the emotional and self-esteem benefits the oppressor receives by feeling superior to another person. Include in your discussion how segregation enhanced the effect. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss the reasons segregationist used for implementing and enforcing segregation. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Claudette was most curious about how whites came to rule them. She was taught that whites thought they were a special race, but she did not believe it.

1. Do you think the history blacks learned in school was the truth about how whites came to "rule" them? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. What changes do you think it makes to black children's lives now that black history is taught in schools? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. What evidence do you think Claudette saw in her life to make her believe that whites were not a special race? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

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