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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 organization did Angela Davis join in high school?
(a) Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee.
(b) Students for a Democratic Society.
(c) Communist Party.
(d) Advance.

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

3. Where did Angela Davis go from Chicago?
(a) Canada.
(b) New York and then Miami.
(c) Las Vegas and then Los Angeles.
(d) Alabama.

4. What was Angela Davis's perspective on the Birmingham church bombing?
(a) That the whole of society was guilty of murdering the girls.
(b) That the best response to violence was compassion.
(c) That the race conflict was really a class conflict.
(d) That the perpetrators must be found and made an example of.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Angela Davis travel to high school?

2. Who were James McClain and William Christmas?

3. Describe Angela Davis's freshman year.

4. What was the purpose of the rally Herbert Marcuse held?

5. What is Angela Davis learning when she made her trip at the beginning of the book?

(see the answer key)

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