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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did 75 percent of the black men do in the 1950s?
(a) Farm.
(b) Nothing.
(c) They were able to get decent educations and work as clerical and service persons.
(d) Unskilled labor.

3. How were the races interacting during this time?
(a) Heavily segregated.
(b) Segregated, but if a black was well educated and wealthy, they could live in white areas.
(c) Loosely segregated.
(d) The blacks were confined to neighborhoods by tall fences.

4. Why did blacks depend upon buses?
(a) To get to the grocery store.
(b) They did not depend on the buses.
(c) To visit friends and family.
(d) To reach their white employers.

5. When did Claudette move to the suburbs in Montgomery?
(a) At age 8.
(b) At age 5.
(c) At age 4.
(d) At age 15.

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

7. Who is Fred Gray?
(a) Claudette's lawyer.
(b) Claudette's best friend's father.
(c) The judge in Claudette's trial.
(d) The prosecutor in Claudette's trial.

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

9. To what is Fred Gray committed?
(a) Ending segregation.
(b) Winning a prison sentence against Claudette.
(c) Keeping the sitution about Claudette from becoming a circus.
(d) Upholding the system of segregation.

10. Who is Delphine?
(a) Claudette's best friend.
(b) Claudette's younger sister.
(c) Claudette's aunt.
(d) Claudette's great aunt.

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

12. Who commanded the buses in Montgomery?
(a) The KKK.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) Tough men.
(d) The police.

13. Who agreed with Claudette's mother?
(a) No one.
(b) Claudette's grandmother.
(c) The sheriff.
(d) The white boys' mother.

14. Who was the secretary of the Montgomery NAACP at that time?
(a) Madeleine Scott.
(b) Joseph Sibel.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Drusilla Parker.

15. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?
(a) Raping a black woman.
(b) Raping a white woman.
(c) Killing a police officer.
(d) Killing a black child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing Jim Crow did to the blacks?

2. What percentage of the city bus riders were black?

3. What did Claudette do?

4. What does the person who came up to Claudette do?

5. Who did Claudette call "mom and dad"?

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