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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 did Richard Arnason do for Angela Davis?
(a) Prevented her from writing about her trial.
(b) Returned her to solitary confinement.
(c) Eased some restraints on her imprisonment.
(d) Set bail.

2. What did Angela Davis learn while she was waiting to be transferred to the courthouse?
(a) The California Supreme Court had agreed to hear her case.
(b) The California Supreme Court had refused her appeal.
(c) The California Supreme Court had upheld the death penalty.
(d) The California Supreme Court had abolished the death penalty.

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

4. Why did Angela Davis feel that blacks needed to avoid a conflict with police in Los Angeles?
(a) Because LA police were among the best equipped with riot gear.
(b) Because LA county had permissive laws regarding police brutality.
(c) Because LA police had a reputation for criminal brutality.
(d) Because the LA judges were traditionally biased against political protesters.

5. Why were students protesting at the Sorbonne when Angela Davis was there in 1962?
(a) The Cuban Missile Crisis.
(b) Nuclear proliferation.
(c) Communist expansion in Asia.
(d) The Algerian war.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Angela Davis spend her time in London with?

2. What criticism did the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee national representative make of Angela Davis's leadership of the LA chapter?

3. When did Angela Davis and her companion plan to leave their location?

4. How did Angela Davis travel to high school?

5. Whom did Angela Davis try to free from the police?

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