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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Angela Davis learn about Birmingham when she was in New York?
(a) How segregated Birmingham was.
(b) That it is impossible to live without racial tension, even in affluence.
(c) That blacks in New York were as poor as in Birmingham.
(d) That she could pass a white.

3. What was Angela Davis's perspective on the Birmingham church bombing?
(a) That the whole of society was guilty of murdering the girls.
(b) That the race conflict was really a class conflict.
(c) That the best response to violence was compassion.
(d) That the perpetrators must be found and made an example of.

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

5. Where was Angela Davis the representative for the Black Panthers?
(a) Chicago.
(b) San Diego.
(c) New York.
(d) Los Angeles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Angela Davis go after being released on bail?

2. Where did Angela Davis do her graduate work?

3. Who had been killed two days prior to the moment when the book begins?

4. How did Angela Davis feel attending high school?

5. Why did Angela Davis choose the major she chose?

(see the answer key)

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