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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 criticism did the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee national representative make of Angela Davis's leadership of the LA chapter?
(a) He said they should provide job skills, not Marxist indoctrination.
(b) He said they should be teaching people the history of black people's conflict with whites.
(c) He said they should be providing food and necessaries to poor people.
(d) He said they should work on educating people with basic subjects, not advanced theory.
2. Who were James McClain and William Christmas?
(a) They were wardens.
(b) They were innocent bystanders.
(c) They were prisoners.
(d) They were deputies.
3. What status did Angela Davis obtain in order to get out of solitary confinement?
(a) Legal investigator.
(b) Legal assistant.
(c) Mental patient.
(d) Member of her own legal team.
4. How does Angela Davis explain the press's coverage of herself and her co-defendant?
(a) She thinks they are intent on building up their radicalism.
(b) She thinks they are trying to reduce them to hysterical women.
(c) She things they are trying to paint them as lunatics.
(d) She things they want to destroy any solidarity between them.
5. Why was there a large crowd outside the courthouse on the second day of Angela Davis's trial?
(a) Someone had threatened the judge's life.
(b) One of the jurors had been threatened.
(c) There had been an escape attempt at the men's prison.
(d) Someone had come with a gun to the trial.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why were students protesting at the Sorbonne when Angela Davis was there in 1962?
2. When does the book begin?
3. What did the newspapers compare the second day of Angela Davis's trial to?
4. Who did Angela Davis live with during high school?
5. Where was Angela Davis going at the beginning of the book?
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