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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 happens when Angela Davis and two other women take over the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee LA chapter?
(a) Men in the Black Liberation Movement feel undermined.
(b) Men in the Black Panthers harden their sexist rhetoric.
(c) Men in the SNCC form their own organization.
(d) Women members withdraw from the SNCC under pressure from the men.
2. What was the purpose of the two West Coast meetings of the Black Liberation Movement?
(a) To demand Huey Newton's freedom.
(b) To organize for future regional unity.
(c) To oppose the Vietnam War.
(d) To demand a trial for the murder of Gregory Clark.
3. 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.
4. When did the situation that brought Angela Davis to the circumstances that open the book begin?
(a) Three months earlier.
(b) Six months earlier.
(c) Two years earlier.
(d) Two days earlier.
5. What did Angela Davis say were the two levels of prison existence?
(a) The political prisoner culture and the other prisoners' culture.
(b) The official rules and the prisoner culture.
(c) The prisoners with appeals and the life prisoners.
(d) The police culture and the guard culture.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the atmosphere in the Davis home after they moved when Angela Davis was four?
2. Why was Angela Davis's neighborhood called Dynamite Hill?
3. What was Angela Davis's reason for traveling to Helsinki?
4. What kind of response to racism did Angela Davis believe would go nowhere?
5. Why did Angela Davis believe that Blacks did not trust Marxism?
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