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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sometimes happened if a black person stood up to a driver?
(a) They were barred from the buses for a month.
(b) They were thrown in jail.
(c) They were barred from ever using the bus again.
(d) S/he was fined.

2. What did the boys do when Claudette and the white boys touched each other's hands?
(a) Laugh.
(b) Slap Claudette.
(c) Yell at Claudette.
(d) Push Claudette down.

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

4. What were blacks' attitudes as Claudette finished high school?
(a) Apathetic.
(b) It is not known.
(c) Hopeful.
(d) Increasingly negative.

5. To what is Fred Gray committed?
(a) Ending segregation.
(b) Winning a prison sentence against Claudette.
(c) Keeping the sitution about Claudette from becoming a circus.
(d) Upholding the system of segregation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Claudette want to do after studying the constitution?

2. What is one thing blacks and whites could not do together?

3. Why did the person do that to Claudette?

4. For what was Claudette deemed unfit?

5. What is one thing Claudette spent a lot of time doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Claudette's appeal end up?

2. What happened with Jeremiah Reeves that angered the black community?

3. What did Claudette say to the two police officers who arrested her and what did she do when they pulled her off the bus?

4. Where and when did Claudette grow up and what law affected her life and why?

5. What did Robinson remember and what did she begin to do?

6. What kept blacks poor and what kind of work did most blacks do?

7. Where was Claudette taken by the officers and what did she do?

8. How did Claudette feel on the way home, what did her family fear and what did their Reverend say about the incident?

9. Who was Claudette's lawyer, what did he do for her defense and what were the charges?

10. When was Brown v. Board of Education decided, who decided it and what did it do?

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