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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had been killed two days prior to the moment when the book begins?
(a) Franklin Alexander.
(b) Kendra Alexander.
(c) Jonathan Jackson.
(d) Robert Lohman.

2. Who were James McClain and William Christmas?
(a) They were wardens.
(b) They were innocent bystanders.
(c) They were deputies.
(d) They were prisoners.

3. Why was Angela Davis arrested in Berlin?
(a) She had lived with agitators in the East.
(b) She had become a member of the Communist Party in East Berlin.
(c) She had not gotten clearance when she moved.
(d) She had contraband from the East.

4. What was Angela Davis's feeling about Cuba when she was in Helsinki?
(a) She was critical of the direction the Cuban revolution was taking.
(b) She was impressed with the Cuban delegates.
(c) She was appalled by conditions in Cuba.
(d) She was invited to travel there herself.

5. Whom did Angela Davis try to free from the police?
(a) Carolyn Craven.
(b) Franklin and Kendra Alexander.
(c) The Soledad brothers.
(d) Her roommate Tamu Ushindi.

6. Why was Angela Davis nervous about leaving her location?
(a) She was not sure she would have enough money for her trip.
(b) She was not sure where to meet her contact.
(c) She was uncertain about the trip she was making.
(d) She was a wanted woman.

7. Why did Angela Davis choose the major she chose?
(a) Because literature fosters compassion and understanding.
(b) Because studying other cultures brings understanding at home.
(c) Because language is an easy barrier to remove.
(d) Because politics is the study of power.

8. Where did Angela Davis want to go during her last year of high school?
(a) Paris to study abroad.
(b) Birmingham to work in the civil rights movement.
(c) Canada to escape from American race tensions.
(d) Chicago to work with the Students for a Democratic Society.

9. What did Angela Davis do with the money she stole as a child?
(a) Bought food for her poor classmates.
(b) Bought books.
(c) Saved up to escape Birmingham.
(d) Donated to the Communist Party.

10. What did Angela Davis major in after her trip to Helsinki?
(a) Political thought.
(b) French.
(c) Sociology.
(d) English literature.

11. Where did Angela Davis's current situation begin?
(a) At the O'Hare Airport in Chicago.
(b) At a house in West Adams, CA.
(c) In Greenwich Village, NY.
(d) At a cocktail fundraiser for the SNCC of the Communist Party.

12. What was Angela Davis's family's class status?
(a) Poor.
(b) Outcast.
(c) Middle-class.
(d) Wealthy.

13. Where was Angela Davis sent right before Christmas 1970?
(a) California.
(b) The general prison population.
(c) Chicago.
(d) The mental ward.

14. Why didn't Angela Davis join the communist movement at her college?
(a) She felt alienated.
(b) She did not have time with her activities.
(c) She would have lost her funding.
(d) She was not sympathetic with the communists.

15. What was Angela Davis trying on when the book begins?
(a) A wig.
(b) Boots.
(c) Sunglasses.
(d) A dress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe Angela Davis's return to the U.S. from Helsinki.

2. How did Angela Davis feel attending high school?

3. Whom did Angela Davis go to see in Chicago?

4. What kind of scholarship did Angela Davis get for college?

5. Why had Angela Davis lost her teaching position?

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