WorksheetsELA 10
Total questions: 49
Worksheet time: 25mins
Who is the main character of March?
Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther King Jr.
John Lewis
Rosa Parks
What is a boycott?
It's a boy who sleeps on a cot.
It's a parade.
It's a comfortable bed.
It's when people refuse to buy or use things as a way of protesting.
In 1963, what was Birmingham Alabama's nickname? Why?
Because racists were terrorizing African American homes and churches with homemade bombs so often, the city was nicknamed "Bombingham"
Because the Boeing Aircraft Company's Birmingham factory built B-52 jets there. The nickname was "Bomberham." The B-52 was the US Air Force's most effective heavy bomber in 1963... and 55 years later, it still is!
Birmingham was nicknamed the "Iron City" because so many Civil Rights workers were being arrested and put behind "iron bars' in the cit's jail.
Birmingham was named after Reggie Birmingham, a young man who mistakenly bombed the wrong place in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957 during the Little Rock Nine incident.
There were white racists in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1960's. Which one of these people or organizations DID NOT encourage racism and violence?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) led a non-violent campaign of protests for desegregation and demands for voting rights for African Americans
Eugene "Bull" Connor, the Birmingham police chief, was notorious for his willingness to use brutality and violence against protestors and folks who were involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
Alabama Governor George Wallace was Alabama's angry racist leader who opposed integration and racial equality. In one famous incident, he literally stood in the "schoolhouse" door to stop African American students from attending the University of Alabama.
The Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham was one of the most active of all the Klu Klux Klan groups in Alabama. Their specially was burning crosses, lynching innocent African Americans, and bombing African American churches.
What does the term integrate mean?
To punish
To disobey
To combine
To release
What was the name of the 14 year old African-American boy who was murdered for whistling at a white women in Money, Mississippi in 1955?
Emmett Till
Eman Till
Elijah Till
Eliot Till
What did Brown vs. Board end?
Segregation in private schools
Segregation in America
Segregation in public places
Segregation in public schools
Which action of Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., included his “I Have a Dream” speech and led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The Albany Movement
The Birmingham jail letters
The March on Washington
The March from Selma to Montgomery
Who does this relate to: Leader in the Civil Rights movement; leader of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; U.S. Representative
Martin Luther King, Jr
John Lewis
Malcolm X
Lester Maddox
What happened to the freedom riders at Anniston?
Celebrations
Fire Bombing
Public Support
Press Suoport
Which of these descriptions does NOT match gothic literature?
Hopeless
Dark and serious
Hopeful and bright
Focused on death
The weather in gothic literature usually consists of...
rain, clouds, fog, or snow
some sunshine and big, puffy clouds
sunshine and warm temperatures
Hail
Which of the following is NOT an example of a gothic setting?
A graveyard at midnight
An abandoned cathedral
A dark cabin in the middle of the woods
A nuclear power plant
What type of characters can be found in Gothic Literature?
monsters
ghost
regular people that seem monstrous or ghostly
all of the above
monsters and ghost only
Laws that forced separation of races in places such as buses, theatres, and restaurants.
Jim Crow laws
Brown v Board of Education
Freedom Ride
prejudice
What happened on Bloody Sunday?
Marchers arrived in Montgomery, Alabama.
State troopers attacked peaceful protesters.
Black Americans were given the right to vote.
A bridge was destroyed.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice...
...in some places."
...in the south."
...everywhere."
end of sentence.
What does MLK believe about breaking the law?
Laws should not be broken under any circumstances.
Only the wealthy are allowed to break the law because they can afford to pay the price.
If a law is deemed unjust, then it must be broken.
Laws may be broken if the Bible says so.
In 2022 she became the first African American female U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Barbara Johns
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Rosa Parks
Who marched in Birmingham with Dr. King?
the children of the community
the retired citizens of the town
only the people that came with Dr. King
What was Birmingham’s nickname and why?
"Bombingham" because there had been about 60 unsolved bombings with no one arrested for them.
Blacktown because there was a majority of blacks living there
His brother President John F. Kennedy made Robert the ____________________ of the United States.
Attorney General
Senator
Congressman
Vice President
1. Where did Martin Luther King, Jr., deliver his famous “I Have a Dream” speech?
In a church in Mississippi
On the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
In front of the Birmingham jail
5. Which piece of legislation passed by Congress in 1964 outlawed discrimination in jobs and public places?
Civil Rights Act
Brady Bill
Jim Crow Laws
Segregation
What does John Lewis say is, "...the most powerful, nonviolent tool we have to create a more perfect union"?
Complaining
Tweeting
Violence
Voting
Which of the following is the most accurate description of what happens to Madeline Usher in “The Fall of the House of Usher”?
She dies, is buried by her brother, but then returns to life to terrorize her brother and the narrator.
She appears to die, is mistakenly entombed, but then revives and forces her way to freedom before dying.
She pretends to die, is taken for dead and is buried, but then emerges from her crypt to destroy the house.
She nearly dies, recovers through a doctor’s help, but then is thrown into an underground cell by her brother.
Which of the following words best describes the mood, or overall feeling, established in "House Taken Over"?
violent
creepy
depressed
lonely
At the beginning of "House Taken Over," how do the narrator and his sister Irene spend most of their days. Choose Two options
sleeping
knitting
shopping
cleaning
harvesting crops
Who is the Windigo speaking to?
the mother
the child
another Windigo
Who is the Speaker in the poem "Windigo"?
The Child
The Mother
The Monster
A Third Person Narrator
What happens to the vain old woman who surrounds herself with mirrors?
She goes crazy and smashes them all.
She disappears into the mirrors and takes other people.
She disappears into the mirrors to give compliments to other people.
What object is Kezia's favorite in the doll's house?
The mother doll
The windows
The lamp
The chimney
How does Lena taunt Lil Kelvey?
She teases Lil about her clothes.
She tells Lil that she's going to be a servant.
She calls Else a dog.
She steals Lil's hat.
Why are the Burnell girls not allowed to speak to the Kelvey girls.
The don't own a doll house
Their mom is a washer woman
They are mean to them
They are poorly behaved at school
In “Fences,” what point is the poet making when the mother repeats, “It’s their beach. / It’s their beach”?
It is sad to see poor people who don't feel they can use their own beach.
It is unusual to see fences on the beach.
It tells the story of children playing in the sand.
It shows the difference between a lake beachfront and an ocean beachfront.
In “Fences,” what is the reason the poet uses the title “Fences”?
To refer to the fences around his home.
To make the reader think there are tall fences in the park.
To show that there is a difference between the homes.
To show the barrier between the tourists and the speaker and her family.
What is the main trait that makes teenagers unpopular? (According to R.O.T.G)?
being different
being aggressive
being a gossip
being shy
Which of these quotations best expresses the central idea of “Revenge of the Geeks”?
For many, … high school is the “first foray into the adult world where [kids] have to think about their own status.”
Geeks profit from their technological knowhow.
In the adult world, being out is in.
[Students] need to know before graduation that being different is not a problem but a strength.
. Which of the following statements best expresses the central idea of “The Raven”?
Happiness is fleeting.
The narrator will grieve Lenore's death forever.
The poet will never sleep again.
Grief is a manifestation of insanity.
