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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was Angela Davis's mother doing in New York?
(a) Working on her masters degree.
(b) Fleeing from McCarthyist persecution in the South.
(c) Working for the Communist Party.
(d) Organizing workers.

4. What did Angela Davis do with the money she stole as a child?
(a) Donated to the Communist Party.
(b) Bought books.
(c) Saved up to escape Birmingham.
(d) Bought food for her poor classmates.

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

6. Why was Angela Davis arrested in Berlin?
(a) She had become a member of the Communist Party in East Berlin.
(b) She had lived with agitators in the East.
(c) She had not gotten clearance when she moved.
(d) She had contraband from the East.

7. What was the purpose of the rally Herbert Marcuse held?
(a) To get the government to withdraw its threats.
(b) To get the government to enter dialogue with Castro.
(c) To get the government to end its nuclear weapons program.
(d) To get the government to hold firm against Castro.

8. Describe Angela Davis's return to the U.S. from Helsinki.
(a) She was questioned by the FBI.
(b) She was questioned by police.
(c) She returned without incident.
(d) She was arrested.

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

10. Where was Angela Davis sent right before Christmas 1970?
(a) The general prison population.
(b) The mental ward.
(c) California.
(d) Chicago.

11. What did Angela Davis learn about Birmingham when she was in New York?
(a) That it is impossible to live without racial tension, even in affluence.
(b) That she could pass a white.
(c) That blacks in New York were as poor as in Birmingham.
(d) How segregated Birmingham was.

12. What was the consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis at Angela Davis's college?
(a) Herbert Marcuse's lectures were cancelled.
(b) James Baldwin's lectures were cancelled.
(c) Communist students were expelled.
(d) School was closed.

13. Where did Angela Davis go from Chicago?
(a) Las Vegas and then Los Angeles.
(b) New York and then Miami.
(c) Canada.
(d) Alabama.

14. Whom did Angela Davis travel to Helsinki with?
(a) Woody.
(b) Flo.
(c) Gwen.
(d) Harriet.

15. Where had Angela Davis been teaching before the time the book began?
(a) San Francisco State College.
(b) Oxford University.
(c) University of Chicago.
(d) University of California.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Angela Davis travel to high school?

3. What was Angela Davis's father's occupation?

4. Why was Angela Davis's neighborhood called Dynamite Hill?

5. Where did Angela Davis's family move when Angela Davis was four?

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