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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 does the person who came up to Claudette do?
(a) Arrest the boys.
(b) Arrest Claudette.
(c) Pulls Claudette aside to say something to her in private.
(d) Slaps Claudette.

2. Where is Claudette born?
(a) Pensacola.
(b) Shreveport.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Mobile.

3. Why did the person do that to Claudette?
(a) Because the boys had gone beyond what was considered ok.
(b) To get her away from the boys.
(c) Because Claudette spit on the sidewalk in front of the boys.
(d) To teach her not to touch white people.

4. Who is Geraldine Nesbitt?
(a) The President of the Women's Democratic League.
(b) The head of the NAACP in Montgomery.
(c) One of Claudia's teachers.
(d) The President of the Women's Political Caucus.

5. In what decades are her childhood years?
(a) 1920-30s.
(b) 1940-50s.
(c) 1930-40s.
(d) 1950-60s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Claudette go to live when she is a baby?

2. What did Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka do?

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

4. What did the Montgomery Circuit Court adjudicate about Claudette's conviction?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why didn't Claudette get arrested at the first stop when a policeman came to arrest her?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did the incident on the bus with Claudette start?

10. What did people think of Claudette, what made her curious about the whites and what was she taught about the whites?

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