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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 CORE?
(a) Congress of Republican Equality.
(b) Congress of Real Equality.
(c) Congress of Racial Energy.
(d) Congress of Racial Equality.

2. Who are the Freedom Riders?
(a) Activists who rode through the South on buses.
(b) Horse riders.
(c) Airplane pilots.
(d) Activists who rode through the North on buses.

3. Who was Emmett Till?
(a) A teacher from Canada.
(b) A Black teenaged boy who was murdered by white men.
(c) A preacher from Atlanta.
(d) A choir boy.

4. Whose bus gets bombed?
(a) Dr. King's.
(b) Lewis's.
(c) Who is Bull Connor?
(d) Bevel's.

5. Who sets out to train Birmingham's children for marches?
(a) Dr. King.
(b) Lewis.
(c) James Bevel.
(d) Jim Lawson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who eventually agrees that lunch counters should be desegregated?

2. What does Floyd Mann do for the Freedom Riders?

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

4. What part of school did Lewis love?

5. Who shows up to Abernathy's church to provide protection?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is James Farmer?

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

3. Who does the subject of the biography preach to?

4. Where does the subject of the biography travel to with Otis Carter?

5. Why was Lewis so adamant about marching?

6. Where does John Lewis grow up?

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

8. Whose bus gets firebombed in Book Two?

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

10. Who were the Freedom Riders?

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