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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) School was closed.
(b) James Baldwin's lectures were cancelled.
(c) Herbert Marcuse's lectures were cancelled.
(d) Communist students were expelled.

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

3. Where did Angela Davis go after being released on bail?
(a) Ruchell Magee's home.
(b) Bettina and Jack's home.
(c) Her parents' home.
(d) Franklin Alexander's home.

4. Why did Angela Davis believe that Blacks did not trust Marxism?
(a) They saw it as part of white culture.
(b) They did not want to abolish owners, they wanted the right to be owners themselves.
(c) They needed historical redress, not just economic inclusion.
(d) They distrusted the equalizing promises of proletarian ownership.

5. How did Angela Davis and her friends show support for the organization her parents belonged to?
(a) By refusing to go to the back of the bus.
(b) By eating in white-only restaurants.
(c) By studying hard and getting good grades.
(d) By giving money to the poor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were the Soledad Brothers accused of?

3. Where did Angela Davis meet her friends in Europe before going to Helsinki?

4. What was Angela Davis feeling when she was waiting to leave her location at the beginning of the book?

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

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