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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the hardest thing Lewis learns from Lawson?
(a) How to love his enemy.
(b) How to sit still.
(c) How to throw a punch.
(d) How to knit.

2. What preacher did Lewis hear on the radio in 1955?
(a) Dr. Stephen Colbert.
(b) Martin Smart.
(c) Jim Lawson.
(d) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. What do Lewis's parents refuse to agree to do?
(a) Leave Alabama.
(b) Sue the state of Alabama.
(c) Start a business.
(d) Give him money to travel.

4. Who was losing patience with the Freedom Riders?
(a) Lewis.
(b) Robert Kennedy.
(c) Dr. King.
(d) James Bevel.

5. Who is 44th President of the United States?
(a) Barack Obama.
(b) Bill Clinton.
(c) Donald Trump.
(d) George Washington.

6. Why does a bus driver refuse to drive the Freedom Riders?
(a) He is indifferent about driving them.
(b) He is hungry.
(c) He does not want to risk his life for them.
(d) He is tired.

7. What does Robert Kennedy tell SNCC to shift their focus to?
(a) Reparations.
(b) Voting rights.
(c) Schools.
(d) Segregation.

8. Who comes into John Lewis's office in Book One?
(a) A dog.
(b) Sen. Obama.
(c) A woman with her two sons.
(d) A chicken.

9. What was outlawed during Lewis's freshman year of high school?
(a) Segregation in business establishments.
(b) Segregation at pools.
(c) Segregation in schools.
(d) Integration of schools.

10. Who calls off the Freedom Rides?
(a) Diane Nash.
(b) Dr. King.
(c) James Farmer.
(d) Lewis.

11. What does Lewis have to do to transfer schools?
(a) Take a test.
(b) Change his name.
(c) Sue the state of Alabama.
(d) Drop out of school.

12. Where does Lewis end up going to college?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Spain.
(c) Nashville.
(d) Boston.

13. After how long are the Freedom Riders let go from jail?
(a) 10 weeks.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 2 days.
(d) 3 weeks.

14. Who was Emmett Till?
(a) A preacher from Atlanta.
(b) A teacher from Canada.
(c) A Black teenaged boy who was murdered by white men.
(d) A choir boy.

15. What became Lewis's home when he was in college?
(a) L.A.
(b) SNCC.
(c) Maine.
(d) Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Rosa Parks?

2. Why does Lewis go to Philadelphia?

3. What does Farmer tell Freedom Riders on the night before their first trip?

4. How did Lewis get to school growing up?

5. What were sit-ins?

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