Rosa Parks: My Story

What is most likely the author’s intent by mentioning “if I saw him on a bus I wouldn’t get on”?

• She wants to show just how tired she was that day.

• She is making it clear that she was not looking for a fight that day.

• She thinks the driver tricked her into getting on the bus.

Match each vocabulary word with its corresponding definition:

Do what one has been ordered to do

Which of these inferences is best supported the text?

• The bus driver cared most about keeping his bus route on schedule.

• Parks wants to clear up misconceptions about the famous story, and share what really happened.

• Rosa Parks was looking for an excuse to get arrested in order to make a point.

• All of the police Parks encountered treated her poorly because she was African American.

Which sentence from the text most strongly supports the answer to Question 3?

• “As we entered the building, I asked if I could have a drink of water, because my throat was real dry.”

• “The man in the window seat next to me stood up, and I moved to let him pass by me, and then I looked across the aisle and saw that the two women were also standing.”

• “One policeman picked up my purse, and the second one picked up my shopping bag and escorted me to the squad car.”

• “People say I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true.”

Match each vocabulary word with its corresponding definition:

Treat in a physically harmful way

What is most closely a central idea of the excerpt from Rosa Parks: My Story?

• Parks did not seek to become a public figure.

• Parks still holds resentment against the other three people who gave in to the bus driver’s demands.

• Parks regrets that she refused to give up her seat on the bus that day.

• The bus driver was looking for an excuse to test out the segregation bus laws.

Decide whether the statements about Rosa Parks are true or false based on the text: The police permitted Parks to get a drink of water.

• True

• False

Which sentence from the text most strongly supports the answer to Question 6?

• “Or if the other three had stayed where they were, because if they’d had to arrest four of us instead of one, then that would have given me a little support.”

• “I didn’t even question why there was a vacant seat even though there were quite a few people standing in the back.”

• “In fact if I had let myself think too deeply about what might happen to me, I might have gotten off the bus.”

• “It was the same driver who had put me off the bus back in 1943, twelve years earlier.”

Match each vocabulary word with its corresponding definition:

Unjust treatment

How mainly does the following passage add to the development of the author’s account (paragraph 12)?

“I asked if I could make a telephone call and they said, “No.” Since that was my first arrest, I didn’t know if that was more discrimination because I was black or if it was standard practice. But it seemed to me to be more discrimination.”

• The phone call was the final straw before Parks finally lost her cool on the police officers.

• Parks thinks that things inside jail that day would have gone different if she had been allowed to make that call to the NAACP.

• The police had to later throw out the charges against Parks because they did not grant the appropriate rights.

• Parks is pointing out that the culture of unfair treatment against African Americans was so commonplace that she had come to expect it.