Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Phillip M Hoose
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Phillip M Hoose
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the white boys want of Claudette?
(a) To take her to the movies.
(b) To steal her coat.
(c) To see her hands.
(d) To steal her dog.

2. Why was it hard for Claudette to be popular at Booker T. Washington High?
(a) Her parents were well to do and her friends were envious.
(b) She was actually very popular.
(c) She was so smart.
(d) She was light skinned and had straight hair.

3. What did the driver say to Claudette?
(a) She needed to get off the bus and take another since it was broken down.
(b) Claudette did not need to get up since her foot was broken.
(c) He had to put her on another bus since he forgot to stop at her stop.
(d) He needed her row of seats.

4. What changed as the bus moved onward on its route?
(a) The police stopped the bus looking for a fugitive.
(b) The bus did not stop at her stop.
(c) The bus broke down in an all-white neighborhood.
(d) The bus filled and a white woman was standing.

5. To what point of view does the narration change from the opening of the book?
(a) Third person.
(b) First person.
(c) Second person.
(d) It stays the same.

6. What else could Gray appeal constitutionally?
(a) All the charges.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The charge of assaulting the police officers.
(d) The charge of the segregation laws.

7. How did the youth group of the NAACP change to become better attended?
(a) Dr. King went out and proselytized.
(b) It began to be required in school.
(c) It was always highly attended.
(d) Through Claudette's influence.

8. What made Claudette angry when she would go to downtown Montgomery?
(a) That the buses were only air conditioned in the white sections.
(b) That the buses the blacks wrote were constantly breaking down.
(c) That there were racists signs in store windows.
(d) That she could not try on clothes.

9. What did the judge do?
(a) Held the police in contempt for false arrest.
(b) Put Claudette on probation.
(c) Held the bus driver in contempt for lying.
(d) Withheld ajudication so Claudette would not have a criminal record.

10. What did Robinson collect?
(a) Money for Claudette's family to move North.
(b) Stories of abuse by bus drivers.
(c) Stories of legal triumphs for black rights.
(d) Money for Claudette's defense.

11. What is one thing blacks and whites could not do together?
(a) Ride on the same train.
(b) Shop at the same farmer's market.
(c) Watch a sports event in a stadium.
(d) Play on the same sports team.

12. Who was Miss Geraldine Nesbitt?
(a) Claudette's best friend.
(b) The principal of Washington High.
(c) The lawyer defending Reeves.
(d) One of Claudette's teachers.

13. Where were the cops taking Claudette?
(a) To talk to a lawyer.
(b) To her home so she would not be in danger walking through a white neighborhood.
(c) To her bus stop since the bus was broken down.
(d) To jail.

14. Why did Claudette's family stay up that night?
(a) To celebrate a milestone.
(b) Fear of lynching.
(c) They did not because it was a work night and didn't want to celebrate late.
(d) They were constantly harrassed by whites coming by.

15. With whom did Claudette develop a connection to?
(a) The secretary of the adult NAACP.
(b) The secretary of the youth NAACP.
(c) Rosa Parks' mother.
(d) Dr. King.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did two Montgomery police come on board the bus?

2. When does Claudette next see her sister Delphine?

3. In what decades are her childhood years?

4. In what state does Claudette Colvin grow up?

5. What did many of the black people think of Claudette?

(see the answer keys)

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