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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 succeeds John F. Kennedy?
(a) President Clinton.
(b) President Bush.
(c) President Johnson.
(d) President Obama.

2. What is Bloody Sunday?
(a) There is no such thing as Bloody Sunday.
(b) The first day of the Selma to Montgomery march.
(c) The second day of the Selma to Montgomery march.
(d) The first Sunday of March.

3. Who stops Michael Shwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney on their way to training?
(a) Firemen.
(b) The police.
(c) Nuns.
(d) No one stops them.

4. When is the Voting Rights Act signed into law?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1967.

5. What did the proposed Civil Rights Bill leave out?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Integration.
(c) Police brutality.
(d) Voting rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who looks in the woods for the bodies of Michael Shwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney?

2. Who is elected chairman of SNCC in '63?

3. Who rejects Action in Montgomery?

4. What did people bring to the teachers' march?

5. Who gives a famous speech at the March on Washington?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who becomes the youngest person to receive a Nobel Peace Prize in '64?

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

3. How does Malcolm X die?

4. Who goes missing on the way to SNCC training?

5. Who succeeds President Kennedy following his assassination?

6. Who is Bayard Rustin?

7. What does Harry Belafonte do for the civil rights movement?

8. What year is the Civil Rights Act signed into law?

9. How does the March series end?

10. Why did SNCC oppose Kennedy's proposed Civil Rights Bill?

(see the answer keys)

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