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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 decide at a young age?
(a) That she would stay in America and fight for race equality.
(b) That she would run away from America and its race tensions.
(c) That she would show white people that blacks were just as capable as them.
(d) That she would become a doctor, and provide for her family without getting into the race problems.

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

3. How did Angela Davis feel attending high school?
(a) Like an outsider.
(b) Like a despised minority.
(c) Like one of the gang.
(d) Like a valued contributor to the school's culture.

4. Where had the deaths of McClain and Christmas and the other person taken place?
(a) San Quentin Prison.
(b) University of California.
(c) Echo Park.
(d) Marin County Courthouse.

5. Where did Angela Davis want to go during her last year of high school?
(a) Paris to study abroad.
(b) Canada to escape from American race tensions.
(c) Birmingham to work in the civil rights movement.
(d) Chicago to work with the Students for a Democratic Society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Angela Davis's mother's occupation?

2. Why was Angela Davis's neighborhood called Dynamite Hill?

3. What was Angela Davis's reason for traveling to Helsinki?

4. What did Angela Davis say she researched in the library during high school?

5. What did Angela Davis major in after her trip to Helsinki?

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