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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom did the press compare Angela Davis to in coverage of the trial?
(a) Ruchell Magee.
(b) Bettina Aptheker.
(c) Sheldon Otis.
(d) Franklin Alexander.

2. What state was the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee in when Martin Luther King was shot?
(a) Confidently organizing protests nation-wide.
(b) Riven with internal conflicts.
(c) Underfunded, with bad morale.
(d) Successful in bringing splinter groups together.

3. Where was Angela Davis when Kennedy was assassinated?
(a) London.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Paris.
(d) Frankfurt.

4. Where did Angela Davis go when she left Birmingham?
(a) American Friends high school.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Parker High School.
(d) Fisk University.

5. What news did Bettina Aptheker bring Angela Davis?
(a) That the Communist Party wanted to use her trial to stir up hostility against the system.
(b) That the Defense Committee wanted her to work on a book.
(c) That the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee wanted to make a documentary of her legal defense.
(d) That the Defense Committee wanted to use her trial as a accusation of the system.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did some students react to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

2. What were Angela Davis's jail conditions like after she was first moved to her new jail?

3. What happens when Angela Davis and two other women take over the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee LA chapter?

4. What did Franklin Alexander do after Gregory Clark's murder?

5. What were Franklin and Kendra Alexander charged with?

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