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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Lewis meet Jim Lawson?
(a) At school.
(b) At a park.
(c) At a diner.
(d) At a workshop.

2. Where do the Freedom Riders stay after being dropped off somewhere by Bull Connor?
(a) A hotel.
(b) A couple's home.
(c) A bar.
(d) A park.

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

4. What is Parchman Farm?
(a) A resort.
(b) A farm.
(c) A prison.
(d) A school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lewis celebrating at a picnic in Nashville?

2. What is CORE?

3. What was the mattress war?

4. What does Robert Kennedy want the Freedom Riders to do?

5. Who are the Freedom Riders?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the mattress war?

2. Who offers to help Lewis sue the state of Alabama?

3. Why does Robert Kennedy lose his patience with SNCC?

4. Why is there a protest at a Cairo swimming pool?

5. What were the protesters instructed NOT to do during sit-ins?

6. What does the subject of the biography think about school when he is growing up?

7. Who is Otis Carter?

8. Who were the Freedom Riders?

9. Who is Bull Connor?

10. Who is the main individual followed in the trilogy?

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