"This is What Courage Looks Like"

What can you conclude is the author’s main purpose in This Is What Courage Looks Like?

• to teach about the U.S. Supreme Court

• to persuade you that boycotts are the best way to get laws changed

• to inform you about a teenager who stood up to a racist, unfair law

• to entertain you with an exciting court trial

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In the sentence “Rosa Parks grew tired of this injustice,” injustice means something that is ______.

• easy to understand

• difficult to understand

• fair

• unfair

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3. In March 1955, Claudette Colvin refuses to follow the law that black people . . .

• can’t drink out of water fountains meant for white people.

• must give up their bus seats to white people who want them.

• have to sit in the back of the bus.

• must sit in the balcony at movie theaters.

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Which best describes the mood of Scene 2?

• tense

• playful

• upbeat

• mysterious

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In Scene 3, when Claudette says that she felt like Harriet Tubman’s hand was on her shoulder, you can infer that . . .

• Tubman was on the bus with Claudette.

• a police officer pushed Claudette down.

• thinking about Tubman gave her courage.

• Claudette had a dream about Tubman while riding the bus.

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After Claudette is found guilty of breaking the law, other kids treat her . . .

• like she is a celebrity.

• with blame and anger, avoiding her.

• as if they are afraid of her.

• the same as before.

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At the end of Scene 4, you can infer that Claudette feels ______ when she decides to speak in court.

• brave

• surprised

• silly

• sad

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In Scene 6, what good news does Claudette learn?

• She is getting out of jail.

• Rosa Parks wants to meet her.

• The people who want the bus laws to be changed won the court case.

• The people who don’t want the bus laws to be changed won the court case.

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What were Jim Crow laws?

• Laws that supported segregation. (separation of different races.)

• Laws that supported equality.

• Laws that benefited all races.

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boycott means to

• support something.

• protest to refuse to buy, use, or take part of something.

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