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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Angela Davis go to college?
(a) Fisk University.
(b) University of California.
(c) Brandeis University.
(d) State University of New York.

2. Who did Angela Davis live with during high school?
(a) Reverend and Mrs. Melish.
(b) Margaret Burnham.
(c) James Jackson's family.
(d) Her parents.

3. What was Angela Davis's feeling about Cuba when she was in Helsinki?
(a) She was impressed with the Cuban delegates.
(b) She was critical of the direction the Cuban revolution was taking.
(c) She was appalled by conditions in Cuba.
(d) She was invited to travel there herself.

4. What did Stokely Carmichael say to disappoint Angela Davis at the Los Angeles rally?
(a) That violence was going to be necessary in the Civil Rights Movement.
(b) That blacks would never assimilate with whites in America.
(c) That blacks should resort to non-violent forms of protest.
(d) That Marx was irrelevant to the Black Liberation Movement.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was attractive about Fisk University?

3. What happens when Angela Davis and two other women take over the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee LA chapter?

4. What was Angela Davis's relationship with Rap Brown?

5. Where did Angela Davis go when she left Birmingham?

(see the answer key)

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