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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 Claudette.
(b) Arrest the boys.
(c) Pulls Claudette aside to say something to her in private.
(d) Slaps Claudette.

2. What did 75 percent of the black men do in the 1950s?
(a) Farm.
(b) Nothing.
(c) They were able to get decent educations and work as clerical and service persons.
(d) Unskilled labor.

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

4. What did Claudette want to do after reading about Harriet Tubman?
(a) Move to Africa.
(b) Liberate her people.
(c) Help desegregate the Northern schools where it was possible to do so.
(d) Pass as white.

5. Who was the secretary of the Montgomery NAACP at that time?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Joseph Sibel.
(c) Madeleine Scott.
(d) Drusilla Parker.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened at the next stop the bus made?

3. What percentage of the city bus riders were black?

4. Why did the person do that to Claudette?

5. How did some of the white people insult Claudette?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Nesbitt teach Claudette about black history?

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

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

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. Who was Jo Ann Robinson, how did she work for blacks, and how did she feel about Claudette's action?

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

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

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