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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the atmosphere in the Davis home after they moved when Angela Davis was four?
(a) Racial tolerance.
(b) Consistent harassment.
(c) Constant vigilance.
(d) Comfort and prosperity.

2. What did the police confiscate at Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Communist Party propaganda.
(c) Books and recordkeeping books.
(d) Guns and money.

3. What is Angela Davis learning when she made her trip at the beginning of the book?
(a) How to liberate political prisoners.
(b) How to organize a revolt.
(c) How to smuggle guns.
(d) How not to be detected by cops.

4. What was Angela Davis's feeling about Cuba when she was in Helsinki?
(a) She was appalled by conditions in Cuba.
(b) She was impressed with the Cuban delegates.
(c) She was critical of the direction the Cuban revolution was taking.
(d) She was invited to travel there herself.

5. How did Angela Davis feel attending high school?
(a) Like an outsider.
(b) Like a valued contributor to the school's culture.
(c) Like a despised minority.
(d) Like one of the gang.

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

7. What did Angela Davis's teachers tell her and her classmates?
(a) Education is the key to success.
(b) Class warfare was inevitable.
(c) Work hard and you will get ahead.
(d) Learning effectively makes your skin whiter.

8. Where did Angela Davis do her graduate work?
(a) Paris.
(b) Munich.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Frankfurt.

9. What did Angela Davis say she researched in the library during high school?
(a) Literary criticism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) African history.
(d) Ancient mythology.

10. What was the level of involvement in the Civil Rights movement in Angela Davis's high school?
(a) There was very little interest.
(b) There were non-violent protests.
(c) There were race riots and sit-ins.
(d) The students organized racial cooperation.

11. How old was Angela Davis when the Civil Rights movement began?
(a) Entering college.
(b) Entering kindergarten.
(c) Entering grade school.
(d) Entering high school.

12. What was Angela Davis's family's class status?
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Middle-class.
(c) Poor.
(d) Outcast.

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

14. Who were James McClain and William Christmas?
(a) They were deputies.
(b) They were prisoners.
(c) They were innocent bystanders.
(d) They were wardens.

15. 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 race conflict was really a class conflict.
(c) That the best response to violence was compassion.
(d) That the perpetrators must be found and made an example of.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Angela Davis choose the major she chose?

2. Describe Angela Davis's return to the U.S. from Helsinki.

3. How many other freshmen were Black in Angela Davis's college class?

4. Why was Angela Davis arrested in Berlin?

5. Who called Angela Davis after she was arrested?

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