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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Angela Davis supposed to be wearing when she met the people making the demands that disturbed the trial?
(a) A white dress.
(b) A black hair wrap.
(c) A black dress.
(d) A black scarf.

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

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

5. What was Franklin Alexander's view of racism?
(a) That racism is against whites' interest a well.
(b) That racism is fundamentally cultural, not economic.
(c) That racism makes a profit for whites.
(d) That racism would persist as long as the history of slavery had not been atoned for.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the judges handle Angela Davis's case?

2. What criticism did the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee national representative make of Angela Davis's leadership of the LA chapter?

3. Who was Gus Hall?

4. What options did Angela Davis's legal team have after the second day of the trial?

5. Why was Angela Davis arrested after a demonstration against the Vietnam War?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Angela Davis's relationship with the Communist Party?

2. What were the three charges against Angela Davis, and what were the three verdicts?

3. Describe the genesis of the book Angela Davis wrote from prison.

4. What caused the change in venue for Angela Davis's trial?

5. What political activity did Angela Davis get involved in almost as soon as she returned to the U.S.?

6. Where did Angela Davis go after she was free on bail?

7. What did the judge read from at the close of Angela Davis's trial?

8. What was Angela Davis's relationship with her co-defendant, Ruchell Magee?

9. What event made Angela Davis and her legal team consider filing for a relocation?

10. What was the mood among Davis's legal team when the verdicts were read?

(see the answer keys)

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