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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 happens when Angela Davis and two other women take over the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee LA chapter?
(a) Women members withdraw from the SNCC under pressure from the men.
(b) Men in the SNCC form their own organization.
(c) Men in the Black Liberation Movement feel undermined.
(d) Men in the Black Panthers harden their sexist rhetoric.

2. Where did Angela Davis grow up?
(a) New York.
(b) Birmingham, AL.
(c) Los Angeles, CA.
(d) Chicago, IL.

3. How was the raid on Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment related to the deaths that took place immediately before the moment the book opened?
(a) Angela Davis was trying to free Franklin and Kendra Alexander from the courthouse when the people were killed.
(b) The propaganda booklets they had printed had been the trigger for the shootout with the police.
(c) The guns confiscated at the raid were used at the courthouse.
(d) The drugs confiscated were found in the police station.

4. What was Angela Davis's family's class status?
(a) Outcast.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) Middle-class.
(d) Poor.

5. How did Angela Davis feel attending high school?
(a) Like a despised minority.
(b) Like one of the gang.
(c) Like a valued contributor to the school's culture.
(d) Like an outsider.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would you characterize the relationship between the different organizations in the black movement?

2. Where had Angela Davis been teaching before the time the book began?

3. What was Angela Davis's personality like in school?

4. Where was Angela Davis sent right before Christmas 1970?

5. Who was with Angela Davis when the book begins?

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