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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. Who is Ella Baker?
(a) A professor.
(b) An activist.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A police chief.

2. Why was SNCC beginning to fall apart?
(a) No one was supporting them anymore.
(b) People were burned out.
(c) Everyone gave up.
(d) It was not falling apart.

3. Who is James Reeb?
(a) An actor.
(b) A policeman.
(c) A teacher killed in a car crash.
(d) A minister who is killed by Klansmen.

4. What does Lewis know about what happened to Michael Shwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney?
(a) They were hidden.
(b) They were killed.
(c) They were taken away.
(d) They were sent to another jail.

5. Who is Virgil Lamar?
(a) A Black teenage boy.
(b) A white teen boy from Texas.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does President Johnson say at his surprise press conference?

2. What year was the Civil Rights Act signed into law?

3. What do the police claim happened to Michael Shwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney?

4. Who is Barry Goldwater?

5. Why does Lewis move to Atlanta in '63?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens on Turnaround Tuesday?

2. What happens when the protesters reach Edmund Pettus Bridge?

3. Where does Lewis and his colleagues travel abroad to?

4. What church in Birmingham was considered a headquarters for the civil rights movement?

5. How does Medgar Evers die?

6. How does Malcolm X die?

7. Who are Addie, Carole, Cynthia, and Denise?

8. What happens in Birmingham, AL on September 15, 1963?

9. Who leds the first march across Selma?

10. What was the teachers' march?

(see the answer keys)

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