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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Angela Davis base her defense on, in part?
(a) The prospect that the government was just looking for a scapegoat for the Marin County Courthouse attack.
(b) The likelihood that the grand jury's indictment reflected the judge's bias.
(c) The probability that evidence had been tampered with.
(d) The fact that her trial cannot be separated from contemporary politics.

2. What excited Angela Davis during her freshman year at college?
(a) The prospect of traveling to Europe.
(b) Demonstrations in France.
(c) Herbert Marcuse's classes.
(d) James Baldwin's lectures.

3. How was Angela Davis received by the black movement in San Diego when she arrived there?
(a) Enthusiastically.
(b) Warily.
(c) Coolly.
(d) Warmly.

4. What was attractive about Fisk University?
(a) It was closer to home.
(b) It was fully-funded.
(c) It had a pediatrics program.
(d) It would let Angela Davis escape from the race tensions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Angela Davis and her friends show support for the organization her parents belonged to?

2. How was Angela Davis involved in the police raid on Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment?

3. Who did Angela Davis get to handle pre-trial motions?

4. What status did Angela Davis obtain in order to get out of solitary confinement?

5. Where was Angela Davis's high school?

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