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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. What is Lewis celebrating at a picnic in Nashville?
(a) Integration of pools.
(b) Integration of schools.
(c) Integration of bars.
(d) Integration of theaters.

2. Who harrassed Lewis and his peers at sit-ins?
(a) White people.
(b) Black people.
(c) No one harrassed Lewis.
(d) Elderly people.

3. What do Lewis's parents refuse to agree to do?
(a) Give him money to travel.
(b) Leave Alabama.
(c) Start a business.
(d) Sue the state of Alabama.

4. Why are the Freedom Riders sent to Parchman?
(a) They are not sent to Parchman.
(b) For a field trip.
(c) They are not enough of them.
(d) They are too many of them.

5. What does Robert Kennedy tell SNCC to shift their focus to?
(a) Voting rights.
(b) Reparations.
(c) Schools.
(d) Segregation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Farmer tell Freedom Riders on the night before their first trip?

2. Who talks a bus driver into driving the Freedom Riders?

3. Who is Jim Lawson?

4. Who is 44th President of the United States?

5. What does CORE do for Lewis?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is sentenced to 60 days in jail?

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

3. Who is Bull Connor?

4. Whose bus gets firebombed in Book Two?

5. Who is Robert Kennedy?

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

7. What is the mattress war?

8. Who is James Farmer?

9. What establishment other than restuarants did civil rights activists begin targeting in the 60s?

10. Who would not allow Lewis to sue the state of Alabama?

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