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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened at the next stop the bus made?
(a) Claudette gets up to leave but the young white man prevents her.
(b) The bus hits a telephone pole.
(c) Claudette's mom is waiting for her.
(d) A policeman is waiting to arrest Claudette.

3. What were many of Claudette's friends at school feeling?
(a) Uninterested in anything but dating and football.
(b) Tired of civil rights.
(c) Bored with her.
(d) Hopeless.

4. What is one thing Claudette spent a lot of time doing?
(a) Writing her parents.
(b) Cleaning white people's homes.
(c) Track and field events.
(d) Praying.

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

6. Where did blacks have to sit on the bus?
(a) On the front right.
(b) In the front.
(c) In the back.
(d) On the front left.

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

8. What does the narrator say controlled Claudette's life?
(a) Her neighborhood boundaries.
(b) The school she attends.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Jim Crow.

9. What does the person who came up to Claudette do?
(a) Pulls Claudette aside to say something to her in private.
(b) Arrest Claudette.
(c) Arrest the boys.
(d) Slaps Claudette.

10. Where is Claudette born?
(a) Mobile.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Pensacola.
(d) Shreveport.

11. What did many of the black people think of Claudette?
(a) That she was unstable.
(b) That she was smarter than the rest of them.
(c) That she was emotional and feisty.
(d) That she was an excellent figurehead for the movement.

12. Who would not sit in the aisle across from Claudette?
(a) A young white man who was standing.
(b) A white girl from school who Claudette did not like.
(c) The white woman who was standing.
(d) A black girl from school who did not like Claudette.

13. Who did Claudette meet at Rosa Parks' home one evening?
(a) A black man 10 years older than she.
(b) Her future husband.
(c) Medgar Evers.
(d) Dr. King.

14. What happened when Claudette rode with the police?
(a) They ridiculed her.
(b) They slapped her around.
(c) They didn't talk to her at all.
(d) They were kind to her.

15. What did some of the white men on the buses carry?
(a) Gloves so they didn't have to touch a black person.
(b) Billy clubs.
(c) Guns.
(d) Knives.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what was Claudette deemed unfit?

2. Who was the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

3. What was Claudette's involvement in the NAACP?

4. Why was Claudette's boyfriend upset with her?

5. What did Claudette do?

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