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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Angela Davis doing when the book begins?
(a) Hiding from the police.
(b) Organizing a revolt.
(c) Organizing a sit-in.
(d) Moving to Chicago.

2. Why didn't Angela Davis join the communist movement at her college?
(a) She was not sympathetic with the communists.
(b) She did not have time with her activities.
(c) She felt alienated.
(d) She would have lost her funding.

3. 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.

4. Whom did Angela Davis go to see in Chicago?
(a) David Poindexter.
(b) Gerald Lefcourt.
(c) Hattie and John.
(d) The Soledad brothers.

5. Why did Angela Davis believe that Blacks did not trust Marxism?
(a) They distrusted the equalizing promises of proletarian ownership.
(b) They did not want to abolish owners, they wanted the right to be owners themselves.
(c) They saw it as part of white culture.
(d) They needed historical redress, not just economic inclusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Franklin Alexander do after Gregory Clark's murder?

2. Where was Angela Davis's high school?

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

4. Whom did Angela Davis travel to Helsinki with?

5. Where did Angela Davis's family move when Angela Davis was four?

(see the answer key)

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