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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who testified after lunch?
(a) Claudette's teachers.
(b) The mayor and city commissioners.
(c) Some of the black leaders in the community.
(d) Dr. King.

2. How did Parks act when she was arrested?
(a) Hysterical.
(b) She verbally assaults the arresting officers.
(c) Calmly and without resisting.
(d) Sullen.

3. Why was Claudette shunned having to do with her baby?
(a) She refused to marry his father.
(b) He was light skinned.
(c) He was developmentally slow.
(d) His father was white.

4. What was given as the reason for the segregation laws?
(a) Was sanctioned by God.
(b) Required for city order.
(c) The Negroes had asked for segregation.
(d) It was the way it was always done.

5. What did Gray say segregation violated?
(a) Montgomery city law.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Equal protection clause.
(d) Federal guidelines.

6. What was the name of the prosecutor on case?
(a) Phillip Harris.
(b) Walter Knabe.
(c) Paul Covington.
(d) Beckman Gaines.

7. What did King say when Claudette met him?
(a) He told her to go back to school.
(b) He complimented her.
(c) He upbraided her for her pregnancy.
(d) She never met him.

8. What did Judge Rives say about segregation?
(a) It did not violate the federal constitution.
(b) It was time for the south to be run by the blacks.
(c) It was the safest system in the south.
(d) One person shouldn't have to give up rights so another doesn't commit a crime.

9. How long did Claudette stay in Birmingham?
(a) A month.
(b) Six months.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Five days.

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

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

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

13. Why did Parks' arrest spark such a reaction?
(a) She was a very respected member of the black community.
(b) She was beaten.
(c) It came in light of Claudette's previous arrest.
(d) She was subjected to a group of white men's jeers and catcalls.

14. Why did Claudette not have an abortion?
(a) It was illegal.
(b) It was too expensive.
(c) She wanted her baby to grow up in a better world which looked likely.
(d) It was immoral.

15. Where was Claudette when the first symbolic bus rides were taken after the boycott ended?
(a) On the lead bus.
(b) Nowhere to be found.
(c) In Birmingham.
(d) She was at the television station for an interview.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the charges against Parks?

2. Who gave the main speech?

3. For what was Dr. King sentenced to one year of hard labor?

4. What is said of Parks' skin color?

5. Which judge did not agree with the other two?

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