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

2. What was the border between black and white neighborhoods where Angela Davis lived with her family?
(a) The Seine.
(b) Houston Street.
(c) Center Street.
(d) Mulholland Drive.

3. Where had Angela Davis been teaching before the time the book began?
(a) University of Chicago.
(b) San Francisco State College.
(c) Oxford University.
(d) University of California.

4. What did Angela Davis's teachers tell her and her classmates?
(a) Education is the key to success.
(b) Work hard and you will get ahead.
(c) Learning effectively makes your skin whiter.
(d) Class warfare was inevitable.

5. What kind of lessons did Angela Davis take as a child?
(a) Ballet and piano.
(b) Violin and voice.
(c) Trombone and saxophone.
(d) Debate and rhetoric.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization were Angela Davis's parents members of?

2. Where was Angela Davis arrested?

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

4. Why didn't Angela Davis leave the country?

5. Where did Angela Davis go from Chicago?

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