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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who succeeds John F. Kennedy?
(a) President Clinton.
(b) President Obama.
(c) President Bush.
(d) President Johnson.

2. What did people bring to the teachers' march?
(a) Tissues.
(b) Toothbrushes.
(c) Towels.
(d) Books.

3. Who is Jim Clark?
(a) A fireman.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) Sheriff of Selma.
(d) A teacher.

4. Who looks in the woods for the bodies of Michael Shwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney?
(a) No one.
(b) Lewis and his peers.
(c) James Farmer.
(d) Jim Lawson.

5. Who was Jimmie Lee Jackson?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A firefighter.
(c) A protester.
(d) A policeman.

6. Who is Ella Baker?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A police chief.
(c) A professor.
(d) An activist.

7. What did the Civil Rights Act fail to address?
(a) Integration.
(b) Interracial marriage.
(c) Voting rights.
(d) Segregation.

8. What did the proposed Civil Rights Bill leave out?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Integration.
(c) Police brutality.
(d) Voting rights.

9. Who personally thanks Lewis for educating him?
(a) Jim Lawson.
(b) Robert Kennedy.
(c) Dr. King.
(d) President Kennedy.

10. What does Lewis know about what happened to Michael Shwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney?
(a) They were killed.
(b) They were hidden.
(c) They were taken away.
(d) They were sent to another jail.

11. What did the Civil Rights Act ban?
(a) Integration.
(b) It did not ban anything.
(c) Interracial marriage.
(d) Segregation.

12. What happens at the first Selma to Montgomery march?
(a) Everyone hugs.
(b) The troops attack.
(c) The troops refrain from attacking.
(d) Nothing happens.

13. Who stops Michael Shwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney on their way to training?
(a) No one stops them.
(b) Nuns.
(c) Firemen.
(d) The police.

14. Who is Malcolm X?
(a) A politician.
(b) A human rights activist.
(c) A police officer.
(d) A lawyer.

15. What do the police claim happened to Michael Shwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney?
(a) They went home.
(b) They died in jail.
(c) They went missing.
(d) They stayed in jail.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which President proposed a Civil Rights Bill in '63?

2. Who is supposed to lead the first Selma to Montgomery march?

3. What did Lewis think of his travels abroad with SNCC?

4. Who rejects Action in Montgomery?

5. Who finds the bodies of Michael Shwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney?

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