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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of scholarship did Angela Davis get for college?
(a) Partial scholarship.
(b) Full scholarship.
(c) Work-study funding.
(d) No scholarship.

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

4. Where did Angela Davis go when she left Birmingham?
(a) American Friends high school.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Fisk University.
(d) Parker High School.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Angela Davis's teachers tell her and her classmates?

2. How long had Angela Davis been imprisoned when she was finally released on bail?

3. What philosophy did Angela Davis write her dissertation on?

4. How did Angela Davis treat her trial?

5. What were Angela Davis's jail conditions like after she was first moved to her new jail?

(see the answer key)

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