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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who won re-election in a landslide in '64?
(a) Bush.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Obama.

2. Who was especially shaken up by the church bombing?
(a) Diane Nash.
(b) Bull Connor.
(c) Jim Lawson.
(d) James Farmer.

3. Who were the Big Six?
(a) A group of civil rights activists.
(b) A group of Presidents.
(c) A group of students.
(d) A group of youth pastors.

4. Who is assassinated in '63?
(a) President Kennedy.
(b) Harry Belafonte.
(c) James Bevel.
(d) Jim Lawson.

5. In Book II, who did not want the protests to continue?
(a) President Kennedy.
(b) Dr. King.
(c) Bull Connor.
(d) Lewis.

6. Where does Lewis travel abroad to with SNCC?
(a) Iceland.
(b) Asia.
(c) Europe.
(d) Africa.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Who rejects Action in Montgomery?
(a) James Bevel.
(b) Dr. King.
(c) Lewis.
(d) Jim Lawson.

13. What does Lewis tell Andrew at the end of Book Three?
(a) They do not have to tell the story.
(b) They should not tell the story.
(c) They have to tell the story.
(d) They should think about telling the story.

14. Why does Dr. King file a request for a federal injunction?
(a) To protect Lewis.
(b) To provide safety for the protesters.
(c) To protect himself.
(d) He does not file a request for a federal injunction.

15. What bridge does the first Selma march stop at?
(a) Edmund Pettus Bridge.
(b) Golden Gate Bridge.
(c) Brooklyn Bridge.
(d) Parks Bridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits Lewis at the hospital?

2. Who was Jimmie Lee Jackson?

3. Where are the bodies of Michael Shwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney eventually found?

4. What was the turning point in the movement for Lewis?

5. Who gives a famous speech at the March on Washington?

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