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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were James McClain and William Christmas?
(a) They were prisoners.
(b) They were wardens.
(c) They were innocent bystanders.
(d) They were deputies.

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

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

4. What is Angela Davis learning when she made her trip at the beginning of the book?
(a) How to organize a revolt.
(b) How to smuggle guns.
(c) How to liberate political prisoners.
(d) How not to be detected by cops.

5. What did Angela Davis say she researched in the library during high school?
(a) African history.
(b) Ancient mythology.
(c) Literary criticism.
(d) Socialism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why didn't Angela Davis join the communist movement at her college?

3. Who had been killed two days prior to the moment when the book begins?

4. What excited Angela Davis during her freshman year at college?

5. What did Richard Arnason do for Angela Davis?

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