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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Describe Angela Davis's freshman year.
(a) She was politically active.
(b) She worked hard in classes.
(c) She didn't study much.
(d) She was socially active.

2. What was Angela Davis's mother doing in New York?
(a) Fleeing from McCarthyist persecution in the South.
(b) Working for the Communist Party.
(c) Working on her masters degree.
(d) Organizing workers.

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

4. What did the police confiscate at Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment?
(a) Communist Party propaganda.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Books and recordkeeping books.
(d) Guns and money.

5. Where did Angela Davis do her graduate work?
(a) Paris.
(b) Munich.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) Berlin.

6. 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 invited to travel there herself.
(c) She was appalled by conditions in Cuba.
(d) She was impressed with the Cuban delegates.

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

8. What was the consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis at Angela Davis's college?
(a) Herbert Marcuse's lectures were cancelled.
(b) James Baldwin's lectures were cancelled.
(c) School was closed.
(d) Communist students were expelled.

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

10. Where did Angela Davis's family move when Angela Davis was four?
(a) Center Street.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York City.
(d) Paris.

11. What organization did Angela Davis join in high school?
(a) Advance.
(b) Students for a Democratic Society.
(c) Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee.
(d) Communist Party.

12. What kind of lessons did Angela Davis take as a child?
(a) Ballet and piano.
(b) Debate and rhetoric.
(c) Trombone and saxophone.
(d) Violin and voice.

13. What did Angela Davis see on the news in Detroit?
(a) News that David Poindexter was in custody.
(b) News that her parents had been arrested.
(c) A report that she had been seen at her parents' house.
(d) A report on her crimes.

14. What was Angela Davis's father's occupation?
(a) He was unemployed.
(b) Manual laborer.
(c) Elevator attendant.
(d) Gas station attendant.

15. Why was Angela Davis's neighborhood called Dynamite Hill?
(a) Because it was a center of race riots.
(b) Because it had 'dynamite' views.
(c) Because it was near a blasting zone.
(d) Because black families' houses kept being dynamited there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Angela Davis want to go during her last year of high school?

2. Who owned and operated Angela Davis's high school?

3. What organization did most of Angela Davis's friends in Germany belong to?

4. How many other freshmen were Black in Angela Davis's college class?

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

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