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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Flames.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Angela Davis decide at a young age?
(a) That she would run away from America and its race tensions.
(b) That she would show white people that blacks were just as capable as them.
(c) That she would stay in America and fight for race equality.
(d) That she would become a doctor, and provide for her family without getting into the race problems.

3. What was Angela Davis's reason for traveling to Helsinki?
(a) To explore.
(b) A conference on the Algerian conflict.
(c) The World Festival for Youth and Students.
(d) To hear Malcolm X speak.

4. Why was Angela Davis nervous about leaving her location?
(a) She was uncertain about the trip she was making.
(b) She was not sure she would have enough money for her trip.
(c) She was a wanted woman.
(d) She was not sure where to meet her contact.

5. Who owned and operated Angela Davis's high school?
(a) The state of New York.
(b) The teachers.
(c) The state of Alabama.
(d) The parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Angela Davis learning when she made her trip at the beginning of the book?

2. Why didn't Angela Davis join the communist movement at her college?

3. What happens when Angela Davis and two other women take over the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee LA chapter?

4. How was Angela Davis received by the black movement in San Diego when she arrived there?

5. Where was Angela Davis's high school?

(see the answer key)

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