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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Robert Kennedy want the Freedom Riders to do?
(a) Stop their rides.
(b) Resume their rides.
(c) Stop protesting.
(d) Start protesting in Canada.

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

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

4. Who is Robert Kennedy?
(a) A jazz musician.
(b) Former United States Attorney General.
(c) An actor.
(d) A teacher.

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

6. Why is there a protest at a Cairo swimming pool?
(a) The pool is segregated.
(b) Women are not allowed in the pool.
(c) There is no protest.
(d) The pool is integrated.

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

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

9. Where does Lewis spend his 21st birthday?
(a) In Europe.
(b) In jail.
(c) In New York.
(d) In a bar.

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

11. Who sets out to train Birmingham's children for marches?
(a) Dr. King.
(b) Jim Lawson.
(c) James Bevel.
(d) Lewis.

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

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

14. When where the Freedom Riders allowed to leave the church they were held in?
(a) Two days later.
(b) A week later.
(c) The next morning.
(d) A month later.

15. Whose bus gets bombed?
(a) Dr. King's.
(b) Bevel's.
(c) Lewis's.
(d) Who is Bull Connor?

Short Answer Questions

1. What is SNCC?

2. Where would Lewis sneak away to as a child?

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

4. Where does Lewis meet James Farmer?

5. Who did Lewis preach to as a child?

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