Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Ballad of Birmingham? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. In which decade was the Civil Rights Movement in America, the movement in which Randall sets his poem?
1940s
1960s
1970s
1860s
Q. The young girl in the poem asks her mother if she can do what?
Join the Freedom March
Go outside and play
Skip church for the day
Have an iPod
Q. The mother is worried her daughter will encounter….
The police
Wolves
Unfriendly people
Bees
Q. The marchers in Birmingham wanted….
Equality
Lower taxes
Longer summer break
To start trouble
Q. Leaders, like ____________, often joined in the marches in Birmingham.
Han Solo
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Local shopkeepers
The President