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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 Claudette think she did that Parks could not have done?
(a) Won the court case in Browder v. Gayle.
(b) Brought many young people into the Civil Rights movement.
(c) Worked for civil rights while pregnant.
(d) Made the first step for justice.

2. How much did Parks have to pay?
(a) Nothing.
(b) 10 dollars.
(c) 25 dollars.
(d) 100 dollars.

3. What did Claudette need after the boycott ended?
(a) Work and money.
(b) A father for her son.
(c) A place to live.
(d) To finish school.

4. Who first dug up Claudette's story in 1975?
(a) Cecelia Kitenger.
(b) Tom Pastre.
(c) Frank Sikora.
(d) Peter Johnson.

5. What worried Claudette more than the court decision?
(a) Being a teenager with a baby.
(b) Her mother's illness.
(c) The kids at school.
(d) Being lynched.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Claudette stay in Birmingham?

2. How did Parks act when she was arrested?

3. What did Claudette notice on the bus boycott?

4. How did Claudette's mother's employers feel about the boycott?

5. What was the name of Claudette's second son?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the boycott protesters feel about the court's decision and why? What did the court begin to receive?

2. What did the three judges think about the court case and what was the end result?

3. How and when did the bus boycott get started?

4. What happened during the summer with the bus boycott?

5. Who were the judges on Claudette's court case?

6. What did Claudette do when she returned to Montgomery?

7. When did Claudette speak to the students at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama? What did Claudette do in 1957?

8. Why was Claudette afraid after the boycott ended, who did she meet and what kind of help did she need but not receive?

9. Why did Claudette leave school and why did she feel left out of the bus boycott movement?

10. What did vow to do when the Supreme Court upheld the court's decision and what happened finally? Where was Claudette on the first day the blacks began to ride the bus again?

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