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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Angela Davis arrested after a demonstration against the Vietnam War?
(a) She had raised bond for arrested protestors.
(b) She had been caught in acts of violence.
(c) She was suspected of conspiring against the government.
(d) She was caught with weapons in her car.

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

3. Who had been killed two days prior to the moment when the book begins?
(a) Franklin Alexander.
(b) Jonathan Jackson.
(c) Robert Lohman.
(d) Kendra Alexander.

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

5. Whose lectures did Angela Davis stop in London for when she was traveling back to the U.S.?
(a) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Stokely Carmichael.
(d) Martin Luther King.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of response to racism did Angela Davis believe would go nowhere?

2. What philosophy did Angela Davis write her dissertation on?

3. What did Angela Davis's teachers tell her and her classmates?

4. Where did Angela Davis go to college?

5. What did the People's Tribunal Committee do after the murder of Gregory Clark?

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