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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were students protesting at the Sorbonne when Angela Davis was there in 1962?
(a) The Cuban Missile Crisis.
(b) The Algerian war.
(c) Communist expansion in Asia.
(d) Nuclear proliferation.

2. What criticism did the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee national representative make of Angela Davis's leadership of the LA chapter?
(a) He said they should be providing food and necessaries to poor people.
(b) He said they should be teaching people the history of black people's conflict with whites.
(c) He said they should work on educating people with basic subjects, not advanced theory.
(d) He said they should provide job skills, not Marxist indoctrination.

3. Where did Angela Davis want to go during her last year of high school?
(a) Chicago to work with the Students for a Democratic Society.
(b) Paris to study abroad.
(c) Birmingham to work in the civil rights movement.
(d) Canada to escape from American race tensions.

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

5. What organization were Angela Davis's parents members of?
(a) Students for a Democratic Society.
(b) Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee.
(c) The Communist Party.
(d) The NAACP.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Angela Davis study for her junior year?

2. What subject was Angela Davis tending toward during her term abroad?

3. What was Angela Davis's mother's occupation?

4. What did Angela Davis say she researched in the library during high school?

5. What was the purpose of the two West Coast meetings of the Black Liberation Movement?

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