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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Parks permitted to do?
(a) Go home and promise to come back to court.
(b) Sit in the reception room instead of a jail cell.
(c) Call her family.
(d) Leave jail the next morning for an hour to get breakfast.

2. What did Parks do for a living?
(a) A nurses' aide.
(b) A maid.
(c) A cook.
(d) A seamstress.

3. Who was the youngest of the three federal judges hearing Claudette's case?
(a) Seybourn Lynne.
(b) Richard Rives.
(c) Frank M. Johnson.
(d) It is not known.

4. What did the court receive after its decision?
(a) Hate mail.
(b) Letters of praise.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A letter bomb.

5. Where did Claudette become a nurse?
(a) At a nursing home.
(b) A Catholic hospital.
(c) She was a home health care aide.
(d) At the Seven Day Adventist hospital.

6. Why was Claudette considered a political liability at this time?
(a) She was too timid.
(b) She was unmarried and pregnant.
(c) She was too young and they didn't want it to seem she was controlled by the NAACP.
(d) Her family was too well to do for the poorer blacks to relate to her.

7. How did Claudette finish high school?
(a) She obtained a GED.
(b) She lived with the Abernathys.
(c) She never finished school.
(d) She stayed with her biological parents.

8. Where did Claudette's family take her?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Detroit.

9. Where did Claudette go when she left Birmingham?
(a) To Mississipi.
(b) To her aunt's house in Louisiana.
(c) To New York City.
(d) Home to Montgomery.

10. Where did Claudette leave Raymond when she went to New York?
(a) She took him with her.
(b) With her biological parents.
(c) With his father.
(d) With her mother.

11. Who gave the main speech?
(a) Medgar Evers.
(b) W. E. B. Dubois.
(c) Dr. Martin Luther King.
(d) Rosa Parks.

12. What did Dr. King encourage people to do?
(a) Attack the bus drivers.
(b) Ride the buses.
(c) Provoke the white separatists.
(d) Be loving and peaceful.

13. How old was Parks at the time of her arrest?
(a) Early 20s.
(b) Early 40s.
(c) Early 70s.
(d) Late 60s.

14. How did King characterize the kind of justice they seek?
(a) Justice that runs down like water.
(b) Justice that rolls like a wave over the court system.
(c) Justice that serves all humankind.
(d) Justice that remains under the light of day.

15. Why did Claudette feel hurt?
(a) She was reviled for her arrest.
(b) She was told she was a bad example.
(c) She was lectured for yelling when arrested.
(d) Because she was ignored by the boycott planners.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Claudette feel when she went on the stand?

2. Why was Claudette shunned having to do with her baby?

3. How did Claudette get to court?

4. When did Claudette go to court the second time?

5. Who testified after lunch?

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