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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What church in Birmingham was considered a headquarters for the civil rights movement?
(a) 16th Street Presbyterian.
(b) 16th Street Baptist Church.
(c) First Congregational.
(d) First Unitarian.

2. Which President proposed a Civil Rights Bill in '63?
(a) President Bush.
(b) President Kennedy.
(c) President Johnson.
(d) President Clinton.

3. What does President Johnson say at his surprise press conference?
(a) It has been nine months since Kennedy's assassination.
(b) He says nothing.
(c) It is his birthday.
(d) It is his anniversary.

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

5. When is the Voting Rights Act signed into law?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1965.

6. What was MFDP?
(a) A group of chefs.
(b) A group of lawyers.
(c) A group of teachers.
(d) Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

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

8. What was the impact of the marches in Birmingham?
(a) They made no impact.
(b) The city promised to take steps toward desegregation.
(c) The city vowed to arrest all protesters.
(d) The city vowed to uphold segregation.

9. Who is Medgar Evers?
(a) A chef.
(b) A civil rights activist.
(c) An actor.
(d) A lawyer.

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

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

12. Why was SNCC beginning to fall apart?
(a) No one was supporting them anymore.
(b) Everyone gave up.
(c) It was not falling apart.
(d) People were burned out.

13. Why does Lewis go to the hospital?
(a) He gets into a car crash.
(b) He is brutally beaten.
(c) He breaks a leg.
(d) He breaks an arm.

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

15. Why is Lewis weary of Lyndon B. Johnson?
(a) He does not trust him.
(b) He is racist.
(c) He is not weary of him.
(d) He does not know how deep his support runs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits Lewis at the hospital?

2. What did people bring to the teachers' march?

3. Who kills Virgil Lamar?

4. What does Lewis tell Andrew at the end of Book Three?

5. What happens in Birmingham, AL on September 15, 1963?

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