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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lewis do at Lawson's workshop?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Led a session.
(c) Train to participate in a sit-in.
(d) Meet his wife.

2. Who wants to continue the Freedom Rides?
(a) Lewis and his peers.
(b) Dr. King.
(c) Jim Lawson.
(d) James Farmer.

3. Where does Lewis meet James Farmer?
(a) At a diner.
(b) At a CORE meeting.
(c) At a SNCC meeting.
(d) At a bar.

4. Where does Lewis want to transfer to?
(a) UC Davis.
(b) Troy State.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Yale.

5. What was Brown vs. Board of Education?
(a) Court ruling that outlawed interracial marriages.
(b) Court ruling that outlawed segregation.
(c) Court ruling that outlawed segregation in schools.
(d) Court ruling that outlawed chicken.

6. Where does Lewis meet Jim Lawson?
(a) At school.
(b) At a workshop.
(c) At a park.
(d) At a diner.

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

8. What does Lawson teach Lewis about?
(a) Math.
(b) Religion.
(c) Nonviolence.
(d) Science.

9. Who is Jim Lawson?
(a) A preacher.
(b) A chef.
(c) An activist.
(d) A businessman.

10. Where do the Freedom Riders stay after being dropped off somewhere by Bull Connor?
(a) A hotel.
(b) A couple's home.
(c) A park.
(d) A bar.

11. What part of school did Lewis love?
(a) The principal's office.
(b) The playground.
(c) The cafeteria.
(d) The library.

12. Where does Bull Connor drop off the Freedom Riders?
(a) A park.
(b) Klan country.
(c) A park.
(d) A hotel.

13. How did white people react to the Freedom Riders?
(a) Peacefully.
(b) They do not react at all.
(c) Indifferently.
(d) Violently.

14. Who writes “Letter from Birmingham Jail”?
(a) Lewis.
(b) James Bevel.
(c) Jim Lawson.
(d) Dr. King.

15. What was the mattress war?
(a) The Freedom Riders burned their mattresses.
(b) The prison guards stripped the Freedom Riders of their mattresses.
(c) There was no mattress war.
(d) The Freedom Riders hid their mattresses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bob Moses?

2. Who is George Wallace?

3. Who offers to help Lewis transfer schools?

4. Where do the Freedom Riders eat out before their first trip?

5. Who was Rosa Parks?

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