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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Waters.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Angela Davis's mother doing in New York?
(a) Organizing workers.
(b) Fleeing from McCarthyist persecution in the South.
(c) Working for the Communist Party.
(d) Working on her masters degree.

3. What did Angela Davis do with the money she stole as a child?
(a) Bought books.
(b) Bought food for her poor classmates.
(c) Donated to the Communist Party.
(d) Saved up to escape Birmingham.

4. What was Angela Davis's family's class status?
(a) Outcast.
(b) Poor.
(c) Middle-class.
(d) Wealthy.

5. What philosophy did Angela Davis write her dissertation on?
(a) Marx.
(b) Marcuse.
(c) Carmichael.
(d) Foucault.

Short Answer Questions

1. What excited Angela Davis during her freshman year at college?

2. Whom did Angela Davis go to see in Chicago?

3. How did Angela Davis and her friends show support for the organization her parents belonged to?

4. Who did Angela Davis feel closest to in college?

5. Who was with Angela Davis when the book begins?

(see the answer key)

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