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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Angela Davis when the Civil Rights movement began?
(a) Entering kindergarten.
(b) Entering high school.
(c) Entering grade school.
(d) Entering college.

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

3. What was Angela Davis's mother doing in New York?
(a) Organizing workers.
(b) Fleeing from McCarthyist persecution in the South.
(c) Working for the Communist Party.
(d) Working on her masters degree.

4. How many other freshmen were Black in Angela Davis's college class?
(a) Thirty-four.
(b) Two.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Three.

5. What did Angela Davis say were the two levels of prison existence?
(a) The police culture and the guard culture.
(b) The prisoners with appeals and the life prisoners.
(c) The political prisoner culture and the other prisoners' culture.
(d) The official rules and the prisoner culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Angela Davis received by the black movement in San Diego when she arrived there?

2. Who called Angela Davis after she was arrested?

3. What was Angela Davis doing when the book begins?

4. How did Angela Davis feel attending high school?

5. Why had Angela Davis lost her teaching position?

(see the answer key)

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