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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did some of the white men on the buses carry?

2. Where did blacks have to sit on the bus?

3. What were blacks' attitudes as Claudette finished high school?

4. About what was Claudette curious?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did Claudette change under Nesbitt's mentoring and what did she read that made her what to help the black people?

6. What kept blacks poor and what kind of work did most blacks do?

7. Who was Claudette's lawyer, what did he do for her defense and what were the charges?

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

9. Where and when did Claudette grow up and what law affected her life and why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Mayor and city commissioners of Montgomery testified that segregation laws were required for city order. But Judge Rives replied that one cannot command one person to give up their Constitutional rights so that others won't commit a crime.

1. Give the reasons you think the segregation laws were required for city order. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. What do you think Judge Rives meant by his statement about Constitutional rights? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss the irony of the fact that although the white segregationist say that segregation is needed for city order it is those same segregationist who cause the disorder with their prejudice. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

The segregationists continued to resist changing anything for the boycott. Many singled out Martin Luther King to blame for "stirring up trouble" and the like. He had been attacked several times. Segregationists had also used an obscure anti-boycott law to have many black leaders arrested, including King and Parks.

1. Why do you think the segregationists continued to resist change? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Why do you think Martin Luther King was singled out by the segregationists? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. When a law is wrong such as the anti-boycott law, do you think people should still obey it? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Claudette was now the center of attention wherever she traveled. Many loved her, but others were angry that she made things harder on others. Claudette faced criminal charges, however, and it was not clear what would happen to her.

1. How do you think you would feel if you became the center of attention for a courageous act? What would you do if this had been you? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Why do you think some people were angry at Claudette because they thought she was making things harder on others? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Explain, in depth, why you do or do not think Claudette did anything that could be called criminal. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

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