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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6, Bridges.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Angela Davis feeling when she was waiting to leave her location at the beginning of the book?
(a) Triumphant.
(b) Vulnerable.
(c) Confident.
(d) Remorseful.

2. What happened when the truth of the demands that interrupted the trial became known?
(a) Angela Davis was freed.
(b) Angela Davis returned to waiting for the verdict.
(c) The trial was declared a mistrial.
(d) The jury gave its verdict.

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

4. Where did Angela Davis want to be tried?
(a) In State court.
(b) In Los Angeles.
(c) In New York.
(d) In federal court.

5. What did Angela Davis decide at a young age?
(a) That she would become a doctor, and provide for her family without getting into the race problems.
(b) That she would stay in America and fight for race equality.
(c) That she would run away from America and its race tensions.
(d) That she would show white people that blacks were just as capable as them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Angela Davis arrested after a demonstration against the Vietnam War?

2. What was Angela Davis trying on when the book begins?

3. What organization did most of Angela Davis's friends in Germany belong to?

4. Where was Angela Davis moved to when her legal team requested a change of venue?

5. What did the People's Tribunal Committee do after the murder of Gregory Clark?

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