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

2. Who offers to help Lewis transfer schools?
(a) Jim Lawson.
(b) James Farmer.
(c) Diane Nash.
(d) Dr. King.

3. What does Lewis have to do to transfer schools?
(a) Drop out of school.
(b) Take a test.
(c) Sue the state of Alabama.
(d) Change his name.

4. Which state in the North did Lewis travel to as a child?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Maine.
(c) Ohio.
(d) New Hampshire.

5. Who is Bull Connor?
(a) A butler.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A preacher.
(d) A police chief.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robert Kennedy tell SNCC to shift their focus to?

2. Where would Lewis sneak away to as a child?

3. Why are the Freedom Riders sent to Parchman?

4. How did Lewis get to school growing up?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of the sit-ins?

2. Who were the Freedom Riders?

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

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

5. Whose bus gets firebombed in Book Two?

6. Who is sentenced to 60 days in jail?

7. Who writes "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?

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

9. Who is elected to SNCC's executive coordinating committee?

10. Who is Otis Carter?

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