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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 does Fred Gray urge?

2. What is one thing Claudette spent a lot of time doing?

3. What does the judge decide?

4. For what was Jeremiah Reeves sentenced to death?

5. Who is Mr. E. D. Nixon?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did many blacks feel about integration in the schools and how did Claudette feel about it?

2. What happened to a black man named Brooks on a bus in Montgomery?

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

4. How old was Claudette when she found out what happened when blacks acted up against whites and how did she acquire that knowledge?

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

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

7. Why did Claudette decide to rebel and why wouldn't the white woman sit down?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following:

1. Do you think racism still exists in the United States? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Discuss in dept several things that you can do in your own life to help stop prejudice against any group of people. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. According to the hate crime law any person harming another person and the primary motivation is prejudice or hatred that crime is more serious than the same act against a person that does not have that motivation. Do you think this is a good law? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

1. Why do you think it is important that this book was written? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think this book did what the author set out to do? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Explain why you might or might not read another book by this author about another real life person. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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