Q 01/05
A) First lady of freedom
B) Mother of the civil rights movement
C) Conscience of the South
D) Queen of the boycott
Answer · why
Her 1955 arrest in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked the bus boycott that made her famous.
Q 02/05
A) February 4, 1956
B) March 2, 1955
C) December 5, 1955
D) December 1, 1955
Answer · why
She had left work at 5 p.m., stopped at a drugstore and boarded around 5:30 without noticing who was driving.
Q 03/05
A) 100 days
B) 500 days
C) 381 days
D) 181 days
Answer · why
It ended on December 20, 1956, the day the Supreme Court ordered the buses integrated.
Q 04/05
A) Montgomery
B) Abbeville
C) Tuskegee
D) Pine Level
Answer · why
She was named Rosa Louise after her two grandmothers, Rose and Louisa.
Q 05/05
A) Robinson
B) Edwards
C) Colvin
D) McCauley
Answer · why
Her mother Leona was a teacher and her father James a carpenter and mason.
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