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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 did King say when Claudette met him?
(a) He complimented her.
(b) He upbraided her for her pregnancy.
(c) He told her to go back to school.
(d) She never met him.

2. Why did Claudette feel hurt?
(a) She was reviled for her arrest.
(b) Because she was ignored by the boycott planners.
(c) She was lectured for yelling when arrested.
(d) She was told she was a bad example.

3. How did Claudette's mother's employers feel about the boycott?
(a) Curious.
(b) Sympathetic.
(c) Angry.
(d) Indifferent.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Claudette stay in Birmingham?

2. Why did Parks' arrest spark such a reaction?

3. How much did Parks have to pay?

4. What did the City Lines have to do in response to the boycott?

5. Who did the segregationist single out as being the cause of all the problems in Montgomery?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the segregationists fight the bus boycott?

2. How long did the judges take with their decision and what was Mayor Gayle's response?

3. How did the blacks get around Montgomery during the bus boycott?

4. What did Gray do as a second front for the bus boycott?

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

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

7. How did Claudette become known again in the 1970's and how did she feel about that?

8. What happened to Rosa Parks when she was arrested and why did this make the black community angry?

9. What did Claudette do about the celebration?

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

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