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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 was attractive about Fisk University?
(a) It was fully-funded.
(b) It was closer to home.
(c) It had a pediatrics program.
(d) It would let Angela Davis escape from the race tensions.

2. What did Angela Davis say were the two levels of prison existence?
(a) The police culture and the guard culture.
(b) The prisoners with appeals and the life prisoners.
(c) The political prisoner culture and the other prisoners' culture.
(d) The official rules and the prisoner culture.

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

4. Where was Angela Davis's high school?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Greenwich Village.
(c) Birmingham, AL.
(d) South Side Chicago.

5. 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 show white people that blacks were just as capable as them.
(c) That she would become a doctor, and provide for her family without getting into the race problems.
(d) That she would run away from America and its race tensions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the border between black and white neighborhoods where Angela Davis lived with her family?

2. Where was Angela Davis sent right before Christmas 1970?

3. What was the level of involvement in the Civil Rights movement in Angela Davis's high school?

4. Whose family did Angela Davis spend time with in New York as a child?

5. What is Angela Davis learning when she made her trip at the beginning of the book?

(see the answer key)

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