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Sit-Ins

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a sit in?

a)

Sitting on a bus

b)

Sitting in an area where you are not allowed as a form of protest

c)

Sitting on the floor rather than a chair

d)

Sitting rather than standing at a lunch counter

2.

Where did the first sit-in take place?

a)

Montgomery, Alabama

b)

Greensboro, South Carolina

c)

Little Rock, Arkansas

d)

Greensboro, North Carolina

3.

In which shop did the first sit-in take place?

a)

Woolworths

b)

The Warehouse

c)

Walmart

d)

K Mart

4.

In which part of the shop did the sit-in take place?

a)

The toy section.

b)

The lunch counter.

c)

Baby clothes

d)

At the drinking fountain.

5.

Who took part in the first sit-in? *

a)

High school students.

b)

Primary school students.

c)

University students.

d)

Working adults.

6.

In which year did the first sit-in take place? *

a)

1958

b)

1959

c)

1960

d)

1961

7.

The sit-ins were a form of non-violent protest. *

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Following the initial sit-in no one else took part in this kind of protest. *

a)

True

b)

False

9.

The sit-in movement spread throughout the South in the early 1960s.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Which group was associated with the later sit-ins? *

a)

NAACP

b)

CORE

c)

SNCC

d)

SCLC

11.

What are the four African American men who sat down at a lunch counter?

a)

Joseph-Ezell-Frank-David

b)

Jseoph- Zelee- Ankara-Viadd

c)

Jone-Joe-Mark-JayJay

d)

Richmond-McCain-McNeil-Blair

12.
Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.
a)
Sit-In
b)
Freedom Rides
c)
Selma March
d)
Filibuster
13.
What group primarily used sit-ins as their means of protesting segregation in restaurants?
a)
NAACP
b)
NCAA
c)
SNCC
d)
SCLC
14.
In what year did these sit-ins take place?
a)
1960
b)
1950
c)
1970
d)
1980
15.

Did Martin Luther King Jr. participate in Sit-Ins?

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE