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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. Why does a bus driver refuse to drive the Freedom Riders?
(a) He is tired.
(b) He is indifferent about driving them.
(c) He does not want to risk his life for them.
(d) He is hungry.

2. 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.

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

4. What program does Lewis withdraw from while serving?
(a) An internship.
(b) An intership at the UN.
(c) The Quaker program.
(d) A training session in Boston.

5. What was the mattress war?
(a) There was no mattress war.
(b) The prison guards stripped the Freedom Riders of their mattresses.
(c) The Freedom Riders hid their mattresses.
(d) The Freedom Riders burned their mattresses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Lewis grow up?

2. Where does Bull Connor drop off the Freedom Riders?

3. Who was Rosa Parks?

4. What do the Freedom Riders do in jail to pass the time?

5. Who sets out to train Birmingham's children for marches?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was Lewis so adamant about marching?

3. Where does John Lewis grow up?

4. What is CORE?

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

6. Who is Robert Kennedy?

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

8. What is the mattress war?

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

10. Who is James Farmer?

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