Q 01/05

By what honorific is Rosa Parks sometimes known?

A) First lady of freedom

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

Her 1955 arrest in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked the bus boycott that made her famous.

Q 02/05

On what date was Rosa Parks arrested on the bus?

A) February 4, 1956

B) March 2, 1955

C) December 5, 1955

D) December 1, 1955

Answer · why

D) December 1, 1955

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

How long did the Montgomery bus boycott last?

A) 100 days

B) 500 days

C) 381 days

D) 181 days

Answer · why

C) 381 days

It ended on December 20, 1956, the day the Supreme Court ordered the buses integrated.

Q 04/05

In which Alabama town was Rosa Parks born in 1913?

A) Montgomery

B) Abbeville

C) Tuskegee

D) Pine Level

Answer · why

C) Tuskegee

She was named Rosa Louise after her two grandmothers, Rose and Louisa.

Q 05/05

What was Rosa Parks's maiden name?

A) Robinson

B) Edwards

C) Colvin

D) McCauley

Answer · why

D) McCauley

Her mother Leona was a teacher and her father James a carpenter and mason.

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