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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. In 1950, what percent of black women were maids for white families?
(a) 12.
(b) 22.
(c) 89.
(d) 60.

2. What did the driver say to Claudette?
(a) He needed her row of seats.
(b) Claudette did not need to get up since her foot was broken.
(c) She needed to get off the bus and take another since it was broken down.
(d) He had to put her on another bus since he forgot to stop at her stop.

3. What did the community do for Claudette?
(a) Sent her to school in the North.
(b) Surrounded her with a protective web of silence.
(c) Paid her lawyers.
(d) Nothing.

4. Who was Miss Geraldine Nesbitt?
(a) The lawyer defending Reeves.
(b) Claudette's best friend.
(c) One of Claudette's teachers.
(d) The principal of Washington High.

5. Why did blacks depend upon buses?
(a) They did not depend on the buses.
(b) To reach their white employers.
(c) To visit friends and family.
(d) To get to the grocery store.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came up while Claudette was still standing with the white boys?

2. What did Claudette feel about the blacks' self image?

3. What did the Police Commissioner do?

4. What happened to Brooks in 1952?

5. When did Claudette move to the suburbs in Montgomery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Nesbitt teach Claudette about black history?

2. How old was Claudette when she found out what happened when blacks acted up against whites and how did she acquire that knowledge?

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

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

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

6. What happened to Claudette in the black community following her incident and how did some feel about it?

7. What did Claudette find out about her intelligence in school, why wasn't she popular and what did she think about the way blacks perceived themselves?

8. With whom did Claudette go to live when she was a baby and what did she call them?

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

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

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