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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 was Parks' marital status?

2. What kind of parents were Claudette's biological mother and father?

3. How did Claudette feel about the bus boycott?

4. What was the name of Claudette's second son?

5. Where did Claudette's family take her?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the segregationists fight the bus boycott?

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

4. What did vow to do when the Supreme Court upheld the court's decision and what happened finally? Where was Claudette on the first day the blacks began to ride the bus again?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did Claudette feel about her new home, how long did she stay and why did she leave?

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 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.

Essay Topic 3

Claudette wanted an integrated world and thought that with whites at schools, the school would get more money. Nesbitt taught Claudette about black history, that blacks had a culture before then. There were many blacks who did not want integration at school, however.

1. Before school integration school districts in segregated communities claimed the schools were "separate but equal". Discuss this idea in light of the fact that the more money in a school district the better the school and with blacks usually working low paying jobs the black school districts had less money to spend on their schools. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you agree or disagree with Claudette's thought that if schools were integrated her school would get more money? Why or why not?

3. Why do you think black people would be opposed to integration in schools? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

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