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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Flames.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Angela Davis return to the U.S.?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1965.

2. Why did Angela Davis feel that blacks needed to avoid a conflict with police in Los Angeles?
(a) Because the LA judges were traditionally biased against political protesters.
(b) Because LA police had a reputation for criminal brutality.
(c) Because LA county had permissive laws regarding police brutality.
(d) Because LA police were among the best equipped with riot gear.

3. Where was Angela Davis's high school?
(a) South Side Chicago.
(b) Birmingham, AL.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Greenwich Village.

4. When did the situation that brought Angela Davis to the circumstances that open the book begin?
(a) Two years earlier.
(b) Six months earlier.
(c) Two days earlier.
(d) Three months earlier.

5. How did the church bombing in Birmingham touch Angela Davis?
(a) She didn't have any connection to it. She just heard about it in the paper.
(b) She was friends with the girls who died.
(c) She knew the people who bombed the church.
(d) She knew the minister at the church that was bombed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose lectures did Angela Davis stop in London for when she was traveling back to the U.S.?

2. What was the relationship between the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee and the Communist Party?

3. How was the raid on Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment related to the deaths that took place immediately before the moment the book opened?

4. What was Angela Davis impression of race relations in London?

5. Why did Angela Davis believe that Blacks did not trust Marxism?

(see the answer key)

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