Structure and Narrative: Rosa Parks' Memoir, My Story

Question 1

In My Story, why did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat to a white man on December 1, 1955?

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She was sick of segregation.

Question 2

Which statement correctly compares and contrasts My Story and "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?

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Both the memoir and poem describe the bus ride of Rosa Parks, but the memoir includes more facts.

Question 3

cause and effectchronologyproblem and solutionquestion and answer

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chronology

Question 4

Read the excerpt from My Story.Back in the spring of 1955 a teenage girl named Claudette Colvin and an elderly woman refused to give up their seats in the middle section of a bus to white people. When the driver went to get the police, the elderly woman got off the bus, but Claudette refused to leave, saying she had already paid her dime and had no reason to move. When the police came, they dragged her from the bus and arrested her.

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gives readers a clear picture of the sequence of events.

Question 5

Which is found in "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" but not in My Story?

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praise for Rosa Parks’s act

Question 6

Which is found in My Story but not in "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?

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details of Rosa Parks’s prison cell

Question 7

Read the excerpt from My Story.I wasn’t frightened at the jail. I was more resigned than anything else. I don’t recall being real angry, not enough to have an argument. I was just prepared to accept whatever I had to face. I asked again if I could make a telephone call. I was ignored.

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her own perspective.

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