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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long was Angela Davis asked to remain in the court after she returned from lunch while the jury was out?
(a) Until the hijacking situation was resolved.
(b) Until the judge felt better.
(c) Until the bomb threat could be resolved.
(d) Until the juror's attacker could be found.

2. On what basis did Angela Davis's lawyers win this concession at her arraignment hearing?
(a) The charges were fabricated.
(b) The trial would not be fair in that location.
(c) The legal team was just being formed.
(d) The witnesses had obviously lied in their testimony.

3. Where was Angela Davis moved to when her legal team requested a change of venue?
(a) Los Angeles County.
(b) Santa Cruz County.
(c) Santa Clara County.
(d) San Diego County.

4. Who summoned Angela Davis to the courthouse on Sunday morning for the verdict?
(a) Ruchell Magee.
(b) Howard Moore.
(c) Bettina Aptheker.
(d) Al Brotsky.

5. When did Angela Davis return to the U.S.?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1969.

6. How did the judges handle Angela Davis's case?
(a) They forced the trial to be moved because it could not be fair when there was so much public outcry about it.
(b) They banded together in solidarity with the murdered judge.
(c) They recused themselves because they knew the murdered judge.
(d) They helped the prosecution in every way they could, to avenge the murdered judge.

7. What did the newspapers compare the second day of Angela Davis's trial to?
(a) The acquittal of the Soledad Brothers.
(b) What had happened at the Marin County Courthouse.
(c) The previous relocation of Angela Davis' trial.
(d) The assassination of Martin Luther King.

8. How does Angela Davis explain the press's coverage of herself and her co-defendant?
(a) She things they are trying to paint them as lunatics.
(b) She things they want to destroy any solidarity between them.
(c) She thinks they are intent on building up their radicalism.
(d) She thinks they are trying to reduce them to hysterical women.

9. In what way did Angela Davis identify with the Black Power movement?
(a) Her style of clothing.
(b) Her political views.
(c) Her hair style.
(d) Her philosophy.

10. Who was Gus Hall?
(a) The new judge for Angela Davis's case.
(b) A new leader of the LA Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee.
(c) A fellow comrade who had been imprisoned.
(d) A fundraiser who helped post Angela Davis' bond.

11. What was the third charge against Angela Davis?
(a) Murder.
(b) Kidnapping.
(c) Conspiracy.
(d) Harboring criminals.

12. Whose lectures did Angela Davis stop in London for when she was traveling back to the U.S.?
(a) Martin Luther King.
(b) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Stokely Carmichael.

13. What did Angela Davis base her defense on, in part?
(a) The probability that evidence had been tampered with.
(b) The likelihood that the grand jury's indictment reflected the judge's bias.
(c) The prospect that the government was just looking for a scapegoat for the Marin County Courthouse attack.
(d) The fact that her trial cannot be separated from contemporary politics.

14. Where did Angela Davis go after being released on bail?
(a) Ruchell Magee's home.
(b) Bettina and Jack's home.
(c) Her parents' home.
(d) Franklin Alexander's home.

15. What did Richard Arnason do for Angela Davis?
(a) Prevented her from writing about her trial.
(b) Returned her to solitary confinement.
(c) Set bail.
(d) Eased some restraints on her imprisonment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What status did Angela Davis obtain in order to get out of solitary confinement?

2. What did Angela Davis learn while she was waiting to be transferred to the courthouse?

3. Why did Angela Davis feel that blacks needed to avoid a conflict with police in Los Angeles?

4. Where did Ruchell Magee want to be tried?

5. Who did Angela Davis get to handle pre-trial motions?

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