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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 blacks and whites could not do together?
(a) Shop at the same farmer's market.
(b) Watch a sports event in a stadium.
(c) Ride on the same train.
(d) Play on the same sports team.

2. Why was Claudette's boyfriend upset with her?
(a) For continuing to attend the NAACP meetings.
(b) For not being willing to marry him.
(c) For wanting to go to college.
(d) For not straightening her hair.

3. What did Claudette do?
(a) Get up anywy even with a cast on her foot.
(b) Get off at the next stop so she could get on the right bus.
(c) Go and sit at the seat behind the bus driver so they could talk.
(d) Stay in her seat.

4. What did Claudette want to do after studying the constitution?
(a) Write an essay about bus riding rights.
(b) Become a lawyer.
(c) Move to another country which actually upheld its constitution.
(d) Rebel.

5. Who did Claudette meet at Rosa Parks' home one evening?
(a) Dr. King.
(b) A black man 10 years older than she.
(c) Medgar Evers.
(d) Her future husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Supreme Court do in 1954?

2. Why did two Montgomery police come on board the bus?

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

4. What made Claudette angry when she would go to downtown Montgomery?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Claudette face in the legal system and what did her family do to help her?

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

4. What did the police officers say to Claudette in the patrol car?

5. 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?

6. How did the bus drivers enforce the rules and what happened if a black person stood up to the driver?

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

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

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

10. How was riding the bus rules set up for black or white persons?

(see the answer keys)

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