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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Angela Davis steal from as a child?
(a) The corner store.
(b) The white people's grocery store.
(c) Her father's bag of coins.
(d) Her teachers.

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

3. What did Angela Davis see on the news in Detroit?
(a) News that David Poindexter was in custody.
(b) A report that she had been seen at her parents' house.
(c) News that her parents had been arrested.
(d) A report on her crimes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the book begin?

2. Where did Angela Davis grow up?

3. Where did Angela Davis go to college?

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

5. Why had Angela Davis lost her teaching position?

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