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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the first target of the Nashville Student Movement?
(a) Lunch counters.
(b) Hair salons.
(c) Pools.
(d) Bars.

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

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

6. Who sends a message to Lewis on inauguration day in 2009?
(a) Michelle Obama.
(b) Jim Lawson.
(c) Sen. Obama.
(d) James Bevel.

7. Why does Lewis go to Philadelphia?
(a) He does not go to Philadelphia.
(b) For a party.
(c) For an interview.
(d) For a wedding.

8. Who did Lewis preach to as a child?
(a) Cats.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Mice.
(d) Dogs.

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

10. Who does Dr. King tell Robert Kennedy to send to Abernathy's church?
(a) The President.
(b) The Vice President.
(c) Marshals.
(d) Dogs.

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

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

13. Who was Rosa Parks?
(a) The first lady of civil rights.
(b) The First Lady of Canada.
(c) A professor from Boston.
(d) The First Lady of the United States.

14. How do the Freedom Riders prepare for their journey?
(a) They danced.
(b) They learned local and state laws.
(c) They sang.
(d) They did not prepare for their journey.

15. Who stages a surprise march in Birmingham?
(a) The doctors of Birmingham.
(b) The nurses of Birmingham.
(c) The children of Birmingham.
(d) The chefs of Birmingham.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were sit-ins?

2. What does Lewis do at Lawson's workshop?

3. Whose bus gets bombed?

4. Who is devasted by Lewis's first arrest?

5. Who comes into John Lewis's office in Book One?

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