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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the black community feel after Parks' arrest?
(a) Confused.
(b) Angrier.
(c) Pacified.
(d) Indifferent.

2. How much did Parks have to pay?
(a) 25 dollars.
(b) 100 dollars.
(c) 10 dollars.
(d) Nothing.

3. What does Claudette say about sex?
(a) She does not say anything about sex.
(b) She learned about sex in gym class.
(c) She knew almost nothing.
(d) She knew she should wait for marriage, but the man pressured her.

4. For what was Dr. King sentenced to one year of hard labor?
(a) Assaulting a police officer.
(b) Trumped up charges.
(c) He was not sentenced to any jail time.
(d) Trespassing on city property.

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

6. How many blacks rode the buses on the morning of December 5th?
(a) 2.
(b) 0.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

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

8. What worried Claudette more than the court decision?
(a) Being a teenager with a baby.
(b) The kids at school.
(c) Being lynched.
(d) Her mother's illness.

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

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

11. What kind of parents were Claudette's biological mother and father?
(a) About average strictness.
(b) Somewhat relaxed.
(c) Very strict.
(d) They didn't care what she did.

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

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

14. Who did the segregationist single out as being the cause of all the problems in Montgomery?
(a) Claudette Colvin.
(b) Martin Luther King.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Fred Gray.

15. How long did the three judges take to make their decision?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Ten minutes.
(c) Four hours.
(d) Six months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Parks' marital status?

2. How did Claudette's mother's employers feel about the boycott?

3. What did Claudette notice on the bus boycott?

4. What did the first three plaintiffs testify to when Gray presented them?

5. Why were there reporters coming to Montgomery?

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