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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. Where does Lewis meet James Farmer?
(a) At a SNCC meeting.
(b) At a diner.
(c) At a CORE meeting.
(d) At a bar.
2. Who is Robert Kennedy?
(a) A teacher.
(b) Former United States Attorney General.
(c) An actor.
(d) A jazz musician.
3. Who is Jim Lawson?
(a) A preacher.
(b) A chef.
(c) An activist.
(d) A businessman.
4. What was Brown vs. Board of Education?
(a) Court ruling that outlawed segregation.
(b) Court ruling that outlawed segregation in schools.
(c) Court ruling that outlawed chicken.
(d) Court ruling that outlawed interracial marriages.
5. What does Lewis have to do to transfer schools?
(a) Drop out of school.
(b) Change his name.
(c) Sue the state of Alabama.
(d) Take a test.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who calls off the Freedom Rides?
2. What is SNCC?
3. Why are the Freedom Riders sent to Parchman?
4. Who talks a bus driver into driving the Freedom Riders?
5. Who eventually agrees that lunch counters should be desegregated?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Bull Connor?
2. Who is Robert Kennedy?
3. What is the purpose of the sit-ins?
4. What establishment other than restuarants did civil rights activists begin targeting in the 60s?
5. Who teaches Lewis about nonviolent resistance?
6. How do Lewis and his peers prepare for the sit-ins?
7. Who writes "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?
8. What does the subject of the biography think about school when he is growing up?
9. What is the mattress war?
10. Why was Lewis so adamant about marching?
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