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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kennedy want the Freedom Riders to do?
(a) Sing the national anthem
(b) Carry guns
(c) Take trains
(d) Stop

2. In what city does King gather thousands of dollars of donations?
(a) Chicago
(b) Los Angeles
(c) New York
(d) San Francisco

3. What does Kennedy want to register in the South?
(a) Female votes
(b) White votes
(c) Children's votes
(d) Negro votes

4. Why did Hoover and Kennedy never get along?
(a) Hoover was a racist
(b) Hoover was a Communist
(c) Hoover thought he was superior
(d) Kennedy thought he was superior

5. What newspaper was the reporter in the church in Mississippi from?
(a) The New York Times
(b) The San Francisco Chronicle
(c) The Jackson Packet
(d) The KKK Observer

6. Where is the SCLC convention?
(a) Birmingham
(b) Memphis
(c) New York
(d) Jackson

7. What does Bull Connors fire at the church congregation?
(a) Monitor guns
(b) Ray guns
(c) Fire guns
(d) Shot guns

8. Who does the Chamber of Congress President in Birmingham want to get rid of?
(a) The sheriff
(b) The governor
(c) The mayor
(d) The police commissioner

9. What does the judge charge the sheriff with?
(a) Drug possession
(b) Perjury
(c) Breach of peace
(d) Assault

10. What charges do the FBI investigate in this chapter?
(a) Police brutality
(b) Treason
(c) Perjury
(d) Murder

11. Whose phone does Hoover bug in this chapter?
(a) King's
(b) Kennedy's
(c) Eisenhower's
(d) Levinson's

12. What was Hartman Turnbow the first Negro to do in Holmes County?
(a) Join the Free Riders
(b) Register to vote
(c) Join the NAACP
(d) Arrest a white man

13. What does a man fracture when he falls over in a scuffle?
(a) His skull
(b) His arm
(c) His leg
(d) His collar bone

14. Where does Kennedy's administration think Levison is from?
(a) Vietnam
(b) Cuba
(c) Britain
(d) Russia

15. What does a monitor gun combine the power of?
(a) Mustard gas and laughing gas
(b) Three hoses
(c) Mustard gas and two hoses
(d) Tear gas and laughing gas

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sam Block arrested for?

2. Where does King write his speech for the Washington march?

3. What position does Jackson remove King from?

4. Who does Moses use his one phone call to call?

5. What does A New Orleans newspaper accuse O'Dell of being a member of?

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