Selma Movie Test

In what state was Selma?

• Mississippi
• Georgia
• Alabama
• Texas

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Who was president during the Selma march?

• Johnson
• Kennedy
• Eisenhower
• Carter

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What law passed five months after the marches in Selma?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What racist laws were they trying to end in the movie Selma?

• blacks couldn't use the same bathrooms as whites

• different schools for white students and blacks students

• white and black people could marry each other

• black people where denied the right to register to vote

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What happened to the first march?

• The sheriff and troops moved and let them pass

• The march was canceled because of a storm.

• The sheriff and his troops violently attacked the marchers

• The president sent troops to protect the marchers

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5