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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Claudette next see her sister Delphine?
(a) In high school.
(b) The next school year.
(c) Never.
(d) After she died.

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

3. What did Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka do?
(a) Created the separate but equal ruling.
(b) Upheld segregation in public schools.
(c) Nothing as it was quickly overturned.
(d) Outlawed segregation in public schools.

4. In what state does Claudette Colvin grow up?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Texas.
(d) Mississippi.

5. What happens to Delphine in the summer of 1952?
(a) She is arrested.
(b) She contracted mumps.
(c) She contracted polio.
(d) She went back to stay with her biological parents.

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

7. What did this practice mentioned in question 22 violate?
(a) The Federal bus law.
(b) The county bus law.
(c) The city bus law.
(d) The State bus law.

8. What did the Supreme Court do in 1954?
(a) Threw out Reeves' case.
(b) Upheld Reeves' sentence.
(c) Declined to consider it.
(d) Upheld Reeves' conviction.

9. What did Claudette want to do after studying the constitution?
(a) Write an essay about bus riding rights.
(b) Become a lawyer.
(c) Move to another country which actually upheld its constitution.
(d) Rebel.

10. What did Claudette want to do after reading about Harriet Tubman?
(a) Liberate her people.
(b) Move to Africa.
(c) Help desegregate the Northern schools where it was possible to do so.
(d) Pass as white.

11. Who is Mrs. Hamilton?
(a) The teacher who taught Claudette the consitution.
(b) The white woman who calls the Montgomery police.
(c) A black woman who sat next to Claudette and refused to move.
(d) The white woman who finally sits next to Claudette.

12. For what was Claudette deemed unfit?
(a) To be the face of a movement.
(b) To go North and talk to activists.
(c) For a college scholarship.
(d) For a trip to Washington, D. C.

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

14. Who is Jo Ann Robinson?
(a) Claudette's history teacher.
(b) Claudette's lawyer.
(c) An English professor at Alabama State College.
(d) Claudette's math teacher.

15. In 1950, what percent of black women were maids for white families?
(a) 89.
(b) 12.
(c) 22.
(d) 60.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Claudette feel about the blacks' self image?

2. Who became involved in Jeremiah Reeves' case?

3. How did some of the white people insult Claudette?

4. Why were many worried about making Claudette the face of the movement?

5. Who was the secretary of the Montgomery NAACP at that time?

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