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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 hotel.
(b) A park.
(c) A couple's home.
(d) A bar.

2. Who was Rosa Parks?
(a) A professor from Boston.
(b) The First Lady of Canada.
(c) The First Lady of the United States.
(d) The first lady of civil rights.

3. Who was losing patience with the Freedom Riders?
(a) James Bevel.
(b) Robert Kennedy.
(c) Dr. King.
(d) Lewis.

4. Who is George Wallace?
(a) Former Supreme Court Justice.
(b) Former Vice President.
(c) Former President.
(d) Former Governor of Alabama.

5. Who receives a telegram from the American Friends Service Committee?
(a) Lewis.
(b) Dr. King.
(c) James Bevel.
(d) Jim Lawson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lewis plan on going after his trip to Philadelphia?

2. Who agrees to serve 60 days in jail?

3. What preacher did Lewis hear on the radio in 1955?

4. Who writes “Letter from Birmingham Jail”?

5. Who holds the Freedom Riders inside Abernathy's church?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Bull Connor?

2. What is CORE?

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

4. What does Robert Kennedy want SNCC to do amid the escalating violence?

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

6. Who writes "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?

7. Who were the Freedom Riders?

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

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

10. Whose bus gets firebombed in Book Two?

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