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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Angela Davis and her companion plan to leave their location?
(a) At midnight.
(b) At dawn.
(c) At dark.
(d) At noon.

3. How was the raid on Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment related to the deaths that took place immediately before the moment the book opened?
(a) The drugs confiscated were found in the police station.
(b) Angela Davis was trying to free Franklin and Kendra Alexander from the courthouse when the people were killed.
(c) The propaganda booklets they had printed had been the trigger for the shootout with the police.
(d) The guns confiscated at the raid were used at the courthouse.

4. Where did Angela Davis grow up?
(a) New York.
(b) Los Angeles, CA.
(c) Chicago, IL.
(d) Birmingham, AL.

5. Where was Angela Davis going at the beginning of the book?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Echo Park.
(c) West Adams.
(d) Main County Courthouse.

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

7. Whose family did Angela Davis spend time with in New York as a child?
(a) Herbert Marcuse.
(b) James Jackson.
(c) Reverend and Mrs. Melish.
(d) Margaret Burnham.

8. Why had Angela Davis lost her teaching position?
(a) Because of her radical opinions.
(b) Because she was wanted by the police.
(c) Because of her Communist Party membership.
(d) Because of her association with Franklin and Kendra Alexander.

9. What did Angela Davis major in after her trip to Helsinki?
(a) Sociology.
(b) Political thought.
(c) French.
(d) English literature.

10. What was Angela Davis's perspective on the Birmingham church bombing?
(a) That the whole of society was guilty of murdering the girls.
(b) That the best response to violence was compassion.
(c) That the race conflict was really a class conflict.
(d) That the perpetrators must be found and made an example of.

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

12. Why was Angela Davis's neighborhood called Dynamite Hill?
(a) Because black families' houses kept being dynamited there.
(b) Because it had 'dynamite' views.
(c) Because it was a center of race riots.
(d) Because it was near a blasting zone.

13. What was Angela Davis's mother's occupation?
(a) Secretary.
(b) Cleaning lady.
(c) Nurse.
(d) Teacher.

14. Who was with Angela Davis when the book begins?
(a) Helen.
(b) William Christmas.
(c) Jonathan Jackson.
(d) James McClain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe Angela Davis's freshman year.

2. Where did Angela Davis steal from as a child?

3. What was attractive about Fisk University?

4. Whom did Angela Davis go to see in Chicago?

5. Whom did Angela Davis travel to Helsinki with?

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