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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 kind of lessons did Angela Davis take as a child?
(a) Violin and voice.
(b) Debate and rhetoric.
(c) Trombone and saxophone.
(d) Ballet and piano.

2. What did the People's Tribunal Committee do after the murder of Gregory Clark?
(a) Assassinate the policeman who had killed him.
(b) Try the policeman in a mock trial.
(c) Arrange round-the-clock demonstrations in front of the police station.
(d) Break into the police station to avenge the murder.

3. What organization did Angela Davis join in high school?
(a) Communist Party.
(b) Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee.
(c) Advance.
(d) Students for a Democratic Society.

4. Why was there a large crowd outside the courthouse on the second day of Angela Davis's trial?
(a) There had been an escape attempt at the men's prison.
(b) One of the jurors had been threatened.
(c) Someone had threatened the judge's life.
(d) Someone had come with a gun to the trial.

5. Why didn't Angela Davis join the communist movement at her college?
(a) She was not sympathetic with the communists.
(b) She felt alienated.
(c) She did not have time with her activities.
(d) She would have lost her funding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the newspapers compare the second day of Angela Davis's trial to?

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

3. Where was Angela Davis's high school?

4. Why were students protesting at the Sorbonne when Angela Davis was there in 1962?

5. Why was Angela Davis nervous about leaving her location?

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