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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Rocks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was the raid on Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment related to the deaths that took place immediately before the moment the book opened?
(a) The propaganda booklets they had printed had been the trigger for the shootout with the police.
(b) The guns confiscated at the raid were used at the courthouse.
(c) Angela Davis was trying to free Franklin and Kendra Alexander from the courthouse when the people were killed.
(d) The drugs confiscated were found in the police station.

2. How did Angela Davis and her friends show support for the organization her parents belonged to?
(a) By studying hard and getting good grades.
(b) By eating in white-only restaurants.
(c) By refusing to go to the back of the bus.
(d) By giving money to the poor.

3. Where did Angela Davis steal from as a child?
(a) Her father's bag of coins.
(b) The white people's grocery store.
(c) Her teachers.
(d) The corner store.

4. What did Angela Davis say she researched in the library during high school?
(a) Literary criticism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) African history.
(d) Ancient mythology.

5. What was attractive about Fisk University?
(a) It was fully-funded.
(b) It was closer to home.
(c) It had a pediatrics program.
(d) It would let Angela Davis escape from the race tensions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Angela Davis arrested?

2. When did the situation that brought Angela Davis to the circumstances that open the book begin?

3. What was the border between black and white neighborhoods where Angela Davis lived with her family?

4. What organization were Angela Davis's parents members of?

5. What did Angela Davis learn about Birmingham when she was in New York?

(see the answer key)

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