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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9-10/Epilogue, Browder v. Gale, Rage in Montgomery, History's Door.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where did Geraldine Nesbitt hold an M.A.?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) University of Alabama.
(d) Columbia University.

2. What did Claudette do?
(a) Stay in her seat.
(b) Go and sit at the seat behind the bus driver so they could talk.
(c) Get up anywy even with a cast on her foot.
(d) Get off at the next stop so she could get on the right bus.

3. How did Claudette's mother's employers feel about the boycott?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Angry.
(c) Sympathetic.
(d) Curious.

4. What did Claudette need after the boycott ended?
(a) To finish school.
(b) A place to live.
(c) Work and money.
(d) A father for her son.

5. What happened to Brooks in 1952?
(a) She was fined.
(b) He was hit by a black woman who refused to give up her seat.
(c) He was shot by a police officer for standing up to a driver.
(d) She was barred from the buses for the rest of her life and had to quit her job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the driver say to Claudette?

2. How did Claudette feel about being an unwed mother?

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

4. What was the name of the prosecutor on case?

5. What did Claudette want to do after reading about Harriet Tubman?

(see the answer key)

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