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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 kind of lessons did Angela Davis take as a child?
(a) Ballet and piano.
(b) Violin and voice.
(c) Debate and rhetoric.
(d) Trombone and saxophone.

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

3. What did Angela Davis learn about Birmingham when she was in New York?
(a) That she could pass a white.
(b) That it is impossible to live without racial tension, even in affluence.
(c) That blacks in New York were as poor as in Birmingham.
(d) How segregated Birmingham was.

4. What did Stokely Carmichael say to disappoint Angela Davis at the Los Angeles rally?
(a) That violence was going to be necessary in the Civil Rights Movement.
(b) That blacks should resort to non-violent forms of protest.
(c) That Marx was irrelevant to the Black Liberation Movement.
(d) That blacks would never assimilate with whites in America.

5. Where was Angela Davis sent right before Christmas 1970?
(a) Chicago.
(b) The mental ward.
(c) California.
(d) The general prison population.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Angela Davis use her initiation into the Black Panthers to do?

2. Why didn't Angela Davis feel she could identify with Malcolm X?

3. Who owned and operated Angela Davis's high school?

4. Who did Angela Davis spend her time in London with?

5. Where did Angela Davis want to go during her last year of high school?

(see the answer key)

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