Reading Test: Rosa Parks

What is the genre for our reading about Rosa Parks?

• Historical Fiction

• Biography

• Science Fiction

• Autobiography

What is the setting for our reading about Rosa Parks?

• New Orleans, Lousiana

  in 1960

• Selma, Alabama in 1965

• Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950s

• Louisiana in the 1960s

Rosa Parks worked as a seamstress. Select the statement that best describes her.

• Rosa worked hard and was an excellent seamstress.

• Rosa was sometimes lazy and liked to leave work early.

• Rosa tried to work hard, but she wasn't very good at sewing.

• Rosa was a slow worker and often made mistakes.

Describe the statement that best reflects Rosa's character and personality.

• Rosa liked to start arguments with people.

• Rosa was often loud and rude to other people.

• Rosa was a quiet and polite woman.

• Rosa was a silly and funny woman that made a lot of jokes.

Why did the bus driver, James Blake, ask Rosa to move to the back of the bus?

• An elderly woman needed a seat.

• Rosa was one of the last people to board the bus, so she shouldn't get a seat.

• White men got on the bus. The driver and other white people on the bus thought white people should have more rights than Rosa.

• He didn't like women and was being rude to her because she was a woman.

True or False: Rosa was arrested because she refused to get out of her seat and move to the back of the bus.

• True

• False

Select the answer that best completes the following sentence:

After Rosa was arrested, several women mobilized and planned ......

• a tea party

• a bus boycott

• to march to Montgomery

• to desegregate schools

Who was chosen to lead the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama?

• Rosa Parks

• Ruby Bridges

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Sheriff Clark

Select the answer that best completes the following sentence:

It took almost a year after the arrest of Rosa Parks for the Supreme Court of the United States to rule...

• that buses should be free.

• segregation was wrong and should be against the law.

• that all people should be able to vote.

• slavery should be illegal.

Select the answer that best completes the following sentence:

The author's purpose of the biography about Rosa Parks is ...

• to help people learn that nothing in life is fair and equal.

• to teach people how to hold a protest.

• to help people learn about an important part of the Civil Rights Movement.

• to teach people to follow the law or they could get arrested.