Q 01/05

By what honorific is Rosa Parks sometimes known?

A) Drum major for righteousness

B) Mother of the civil rights movement

C) Conscience of the South

D) Queen of the boycott

Answer · why

B) Mother of the civil rights movement

Mother of the civil rights movement is the title her 1955 bus stand earned her, yet she was no newcomer: she had already spent twelve years working fo...

Q 02/05

Rosa Parks sat behind the reserved front rows, so why did the driver order her to stand?

A) She had not paid

B) A white man had no seat

C) She used the front door

D) The bus was overloaded

Answer · why

B) A white man had no seat

A white man had no seat once the front rows filled, so the driver told all four Black riders in her row to stand. Three got up; she stayed where she w...

Q 03/05

How long did the Montgomery bus boycott last?

A) 47 days

B) 129 days

C) 381 days

D) 793 days

Answer · why

C) 381 days

381 days is how long a protest first called for a single Monday kept going, until a Supreme Court order reached Montgomery in December 1956.

Q 04/05

Rosa Parks made history in Montgomery, but in which Alabama town was she born?

A) Selma

B) Abbeville

C) Tuskegee

D) Pine Level

Answer · why

C) Tuskegee

Tuskegee was home only briefly: her parents separated when she was a toddler, and she grew up on a farm in Pine Level.

Q 05/05

What was Rosa Parks's maiden name?

A) Robinson

B) Edwards

C) Colvin

D) McCauley

Answer · why

D) McCauley

McCauley gave way to the name the world knows in 1932, when at 19 she married Raymond Parks, who pushed her to go back and finish high school.