WorksheetsWeek 14: Reading Test (Sylvia Mendez & Ruby Bridges)
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 18mins
Where did Ruby Bridges live?
Alabama
New York
New Orleans
Atlanta
What did Ruby do on her first day of school?
Go to class
Stay in the office all day
Play outside
Meet the other students
Who escorted Ruby to school each day?
Her father
The US Marshals
The police
No one
What happened to Ruby's father after she began attending her new school?
He lost his job
His car was stolen
He was beat up
What was the name of Ruby's teacher?
Mrs. Jones
Mrs. Henry
Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Cole
What is Ruby Bridges best known for?
She was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
She refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man
She was the first black student to attend a white elementary school in the South
She was a nurse during the Civil War who founded the American Red Cross
The word separate means ___________.
together
small
kept apart
How did Ruby probably feel when many white parents did not want their children to go to school with her?
She probably felt sad.
She probably felt excited.
She probably felt happy.
Match the following:
Unfair treatment of a person or group of
written request that people sign
a rule made by the government
showing no fear
mad or upset
“The Fight for What’s Right” is the story of how the Mendez family fought (a) in their
local school system. Sylvia’s parents had moved to America from Mexico and became (b) of the
United States. Mr. Kent, the head of schools, thought that Mexican students weren’t (c) to
attend Westminster School. Hoover was a clearly (d) school to Westminster. Mexican students at Hoover
were not taught math. Mr. Mendez’s (e) demanded that Hoover students go to the same school as the
white kids.
What is one way Hoover Elementary is different from the Westminster School?
The school bus stops at Hoover but not at
Westminster.
Hoover is a better school than Westminster.
Westminster has a playground, but Hoover
does not.
None of the Hoover students speak English,
while all of the Westminster students do.
Organize these statements into the right categories:
Sylvia Mendez was told that she could not attend Westminster School.
Discrimination means to include all people.
Segregation means to separate and discrimination means to exclude.
The Sylvia Mendez case happened before the Ruby Bridges case.
Her parents are happy when Sylvia and her
brothers cannot enter school.
The judge in the Méndez v. Westminster case says that segregation is legal.
Sylvia ____ born in 1936 and Ruby ____ born in 1954.
Sylvia and her family lived in the West. Ruby and her family lived in the South. Page 4
(a)
A United States law said that all children had to go to the same schools. State laws in the South still ____ Black and white children separate. State laws in the West still ____ Brown and white children separate. Children had to go to different schools. Page 6
(a)
Match the following:
The ____________ was called Méndez v. Westminster.
case
Her parents were ________ because of segregation.
angry
Sylvia was from _________, California.
Westminster
The families ______ the case.
won
The Westminster School was ____________ in 1944.
segregated
Compare and Contrast Sylvia Mendez and Ruby Bridges.
born in 1936
lived in California
born in 1954
lived in Louisiana
a girl who made a difference
went to school
laws were unfair
received Presidential Medal of Freedom
recieved the Presidential Citizens Medal
nine years old
six years old
Mexican-American
African-American
