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

2. Why did two Montgomery police come on board the bus?
(a) To arrest Claudette.
(b) They did not come on board the bus.
(c) To talk to Claudette and convince her to move.
(d) To talk to the bus driver and tell him he was breaking the law.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did Reverend Johnson do?
(a) Bailed out Claudette.
(b) Met Claudette and her mother when they came back from the police station.
(c) Told Claudette she was wrong to have created a fuss.
(d) Talked to the bus driver.

10. What does Fred Gray urge?
(a) Claudette's family to consider the hazard of contesting the charge.
(b) A plea bargain.
(c) That Claudette apologize publicly to the bus driver.
(d) That Claudette's family move away from Montgomery and the charges would be dropped.

11. What does the judge decide?
(a) That Claudette is innocent of all charges.
(b) That Claudette is guilty of all charges.
(c) That Claudette is guilty of 2 of the charges.
(d) That Claudette is only guilty of breaking the segregation laws.

12. How does Claudette's mother learn about where she is?
(a) A lawyer came and got her mother.
(b) School friends on the bus told her.
(c) The police called.
(d) Claudette called her and asked for her to come pick her up.

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

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

15. Why were some people angry at Claudette?
(a) They were all proud of her, not angry.
(b) She talked to the press and gave them a bad impression of blacks.
(c) Her actions causes more problems with bus drivers.
(d) She acted like a celebrity.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state does Claudette Colvin grow up?

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

3. Who commanded the buses in Montgomery?

4. When did Claudette move to the suburbs in Montgomery?

5. What does the narrator say controlled Claudette's life?

(see the answer keys)

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