Reading Test: Rosa Parks

What is the genre for our reading about Rosa Parks?

• Historical Fiction

• Biography

• Science Fiction

• Autobiography

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

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.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

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

• Rosa Parks

• Ruby Bridges

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Sheriff Clark

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

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.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

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.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6