Structure and Narrative: Rosa Parks' Memoir, My Story - Quiz Quiz

Question 1

Read the excerpt from My Story . Another time he went to see about extending the route of the Day Street bus. Black people in a little community on the other side of the Day Street Bridge had to walk across the bridge, about half a mile, to get to the bus. Mr. Nixon went down to the bus company to protest. He was always going down to the bus company to protest; sometimes he went by himself, sometimes he took someone with him. He himself did not ride the buses—he had his own car; but he was acting on behalf of the community. The bus company told him that as long as the people were willing to walk the half mile and then pay to ride the rest of the way downtown, they had no need to extend the bus line. Which correctly describes a cause-and-effect relationship in this excerpt?

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B: Cause: People had to walk a half mile to catch the bus.   Effect: The bus company refused to extend the bus line.

Question 2

Read the excerpt from My Story . Here it was, half a century after the first segregation law, and there were 50,000 African Americans in Montgomery. More of us rode the buses than Caucasians did, because more whites could afford cars. It was very humiliating having to suffer the indignity of riding segregated buses twice a day, five days a week, to go downtown and work for white people. The first-person narration in this excerpt best helps readers understand

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A: the anger black people felt.

Question 3

Read the excerpt from "On the Bus with Rosa Parks." Rosa How she sat there, the time right inside a place so wrong it was ready. In this excerpt, the poet’s narration reveals

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A: the poet’s feeling of pride in Rosa Parks.

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. The author uses a chronological text structure in this excerpt because it

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B: gives readers a clear picture of the sequence of events.

Question 5

Read the excerpt from the poem "On the Bus with Rosa Parks." Rosa How she sat there, the time right inside a place so wrong it was ready. That trim name with its dream of a bench to rest on. Her sensible coat. How does the narration in this excerpt affect the storytelling?

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D: It shows the poet’s perspective of Rosa Parks.

Question 6

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. This excerpt is probably more accurate than other accounts of the same event because the reader learns about Rosa Parks from

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D: her own perspective.

Question 7

How is the poem "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" different from the memoir My Story ? Choose three correct answers.

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A: The poem describes a single scene; the memoir describes many scenes.; B: The poem shows an outsider’s point of view of Rosa Parks; the memoir does not.; D: The poem uses few words; the memoir uses many words.

Question 8

Read the excerpt from My Story . It was unfair to segregate us. But neither the bus company nor the mayor nor the city commissioners would listen. I remember having discussions about how a boycott of the city buses would really hurt the bus company in its pocketbook. But I also remember asking a few people if they would be willing to stay off the buses to make things better for us, and them saying that they had too far to go to work. So it didn’t seem as if there would be much support for a boycott. Which piece of information could probably only come from Rosa Parks’s first-person narration of the story?

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D: Rosa Parks asked a few people if they were willing to boycott the buses.

Question 9

Read the excerpt from My Story . I did not go down with the others to present that petition to the bus company and the city officials, because I didn’t feel anything could be accomplished. I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual. Now look at this graphic organizer. Cause Effect She did not think the petition would help. What belongs in the blank "Effect” box?

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B: She did not go with her friends to present the petition.

Question 10

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

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A: praise for Rosa Parks’s act

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