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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the Freedom Riders stay at a bus station all night?
(a) They miss their bus.
(b) They do not have a bus driver.
(c) They are being arrested.
(d) They are tired.

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

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

4. What does Farmer tell Freedom Riders on the night before their first trip?
(a) They should take extra toothbrushes.
(b) He understands if they want to back out.
(c) Farmer tells them nothing.
(d) They cannot back out now.

5. What is Lewis celebrating at a picnic in Nashville?
(a) Integration of theaters.
(b) Integration of pools.
(c) Integration of bars.
(d) Integration of schools.

Short Answer Questions

1. What food was Lewis uncomfortable eating growing up?

2. Where does Lewis meet James Farmer?

3. What does Floyd Mann do for the Freedom Riders?

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

5. What part of school did Lewis love?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does the subject of the biography preach to?

2. What does Robert Kennedy want SNCC to do amid the escalating violence?

3. Who were the Freedom Riders?

4. Who is the 44th president of the United States?

5. Who would not allow Lewis to sue the state of Alabama?

6. Where does the subject of the biography travel to with Otis Carter?

7. What is CORE?

8. What is the mattress war?

9. Where does Bull Connor drop off Lewis and his colleagues?

10. What does the subject of the biography think about school when he is growing up?

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