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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 is one thing Jim Crow did to the blacks?
(a) Kept them fighting among themselves.
(b) Gave them opportunities for better jobs.
(c) Gave them opportunities for education.
(d) Kept them poor.

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

3. What did the judge do?
(a) Put Claudette on probation.
(b) Held the bus driver in contempt for lying.
(c) Held the police in contempt for false arrest.
(d) Withheld ajudication so Claudette would not have a criminal record.

4. Who became involved in Jeremiah Reeves' case?
(a) The Anti-defamation League.
(b) The NAACP.
(c) No one as they were too scared.
(d) Amnesty International.

5. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?
(a) Raping a white woman.
(b) Killing a black child.
(c) Raping a black woman.
(d) Killing a police officer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the secretary of the Montgomery NAACP at that time?

2. Where is Claudette born?

3. In what state does Claudette Colvin grow up?

4. In 1950, what percent of black women were maids for white families?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Claudette's mother find out where she was and who did she bring with her?

2. What did Claudette say was the reason Reeves' conviction changed her life?

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

4. What happened to a black man named Brooks on a bus in Montgomery?

5. Who was Geraldine Nesbitt, how was she educated and what was her influence on Claudette?

6. What happened when the lawyer, Nixon, called Rosa Parks about Claudette?

7. What idea was beginning to grow and why hadn't it been done yet?

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

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

10. How did many blacks feel about integration in the schools and how did Claudette feel about it?

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