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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Angela Davis travel to high school?
(a) By car.
(b) By foot.
(c) By bus.
(d) By train.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization did Angela Davis join in high school?

2. What organization were Angela Davis's parents members of?

3. When did the situation that brought Angela Davis to the circumstances that open the book begin?

4. Where did Angela Davis's family move when Angela Davis was four?

5. Why didn't Angela Davis leave the country?

(see the answer key)

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