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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Rocks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Angela Davis's neighborhood called Dynamite Hill?
(a) Because it was a center of race riots.
(b) Because it had 'dynamite' views.
(c) Because it was near a blasting zone.
(d) Because black families' houses kept being dynamited there.

2. What was Angela Davis's mother doing in New York?
(a) Organizing workers.
(b) Fleeing from McCarthyist persecution in the South.
(c) Working for the Communist Party.
(d) Working on her masters degree.

3. Why didn't Angela Davis leave the country?
(a) She wanted to be close to her family.
(b) She wanted to be close to the movement.
(c) She was afraid of being caught.
(d) She did not have a passport.

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

5. What is Angela Davis learning when she made her trip at the beginning of the book?
(a) How to organize a revolt.
(b) How to liberate political prisoners.
(c) How not to be detected by cops.
(d) How to smuggle guns.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Angela Davis see on the news in Detroit?

3. Where did Angela Davis go when she left Birmingham?

4. Where was Angela Davis arrested?

5. Where was Angela Davis's high school?

(see the answer key)

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