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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the situation that brought Angela Davis to the circumstances that open the book begin?
(a) Six months earlier.
(b) Two days earlier.
(c) Three months earlier.
(d) Two years earlier.

2. What was the consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis at Angela Davis's college?
(a) School was closed.
(b) Communist students were expelled.
(c) Herbert Marcuse's lectures were cancelled.
(d) James Baldwin's lectures were cancelled.

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

4. Where did Angela Davis's family move when Angela Davis was four?
(a) New York City.
(b) Center Street.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Paris.

5. What did Angela Davis use her initiation into the Black Panthers to do?
(a) Think about whether to join the Communist Party.
(b) Think about how to unify black movement organizations.
(c) Think about how to found a political collective.
(d) Think about how to oppose the Vietnam War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Angela Davis do with the money she stole as a child?

2. Why did Angela Davis believe that Blacks did not trust Marxism?

3. What excited Angela Davis during her freshman year at college?

4. How did the LA police try to incite conflict after Martin Luther King's assassination?

5. Where was Angela Davis's high school?

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