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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 did Angela Davis do that technically violated her bail bond?
(a) Spoke with the people who had helped raise her bond.
(b) Traveled to Chicago.
(c) Appeared at the Soledad Brothers' trial.
(d) Visited with her mother.

2. How did the church bombing in Birmingham touch Angela Davis?
(a) She didn't have any connection to it. She just heard about it in the paper.
(b) She knew the minister at the church that was bombed.
(c) She knew the people who bombed the church.
(d) She was friends with the girls who died.

3. What status did Angela Davis obtain in order to get out of solitary confinement?
(a) Mental patient.
(b) Legal investigator.
(c) Member of her own legal team.
(d) Legal assistant.

4. What criterion did Angela Davis insist her lawyers agree on?
(a) That the trial be based on the facts of the case, not politics.
(b) That the justice system was corrupt.
(c) That the trial was political.
(d) That there was bias against blacks in the justice system.

5. What did Angela Davis's teachers tell her and her classmates?
(a) Education is the key to success.
(b) Learning effectively makes your skin whiter.
(c) Work hard and you will get ahead.
(d) Class warfare was inevitable.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Angela Davis feel attending high school?

2. Where did Angela Davis grow up?

3. Whom did the press compare Angela Davis to in coverage of the trial?

4. How did Angela Davis treat her trial?

5. Who was Gus Hall?

(see the answer key)

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