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

2. Why did Claudette not have an abortion?

3. Which judge did not agree with the other two?

4. How did Claudette's mother's employers feel about the boycott?

5. What organization helped to create an alternative transport system?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Claudette become known again in the 1970's and how did she feel about that?

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

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

4. What did Martin Luther King see on December 5th? What was held to commemorate it?

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

6. What did Claudette do about the celebration?

7. What did Gray do as a second front for the bus boycott?

8. How did the segregationists fight the bus boycott?

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Claudette felt alone and hurt by Rosa Parks' accomplishments and the way the black community rallied around her. But she had to worry about other things, like being ostracized and kicked out of school and about how she would take care of her baby.

1. Why do you think Claudette felt alone and hurt? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think unwed pregnant teenagers should be kicked out of school? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Do you think people didn't help Claudette with the baby because they thought it was wrong for her to get pregnant or because they just didn't think about it? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Claudette was now the center of attention wherever she traveled. Many loved her, but others were angry that she made things harder on others. Claudette faced criminal charges, however, and it was not clear what would happen to her.

1. How do you think you would feel if you became the center of attention for a courageous act? What would you do if this had been you? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Why do you think some people were angry at Claudette because they thought she was making things harder on others? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Explain, in depth, why you do or do not think Claudette did anything that could be called criminal. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

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