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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Angela Davis go when she left Birmingham?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Parker High School.
(c) Fisk University.
(d) American Friends high school.

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

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

4. How did the church bombing in Birmingham touch Angela Davis?
(a) She knew the people who bombed the church.
(b) She was friends with the girls who died.
(c) She knew the minister at the church that was bombed.
(d) She didn't have any connection to it. She just heard about it in the paper.

5. What was Angela Davis's reason for traveling to Helsinki?
(a) To explore.
(b) To hear Malcolm X speak.
(c) A conference on the Algerian conflict.
(d) The World Festival for Youth and Students.

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

7. Why didn't Angela Davis feel she could identify with Malcolm X?
(a) Because she was not male.
(b) Because she was not militant.
(c) Because she was not poor.
(d) Because she was not Muslim.

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

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

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

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

12. Why were students protesting at the Sorbonne when Angela Davis was there in 1962?
(a) Communist expansion in Asia.
(b) The Algerian war.
(c) Nuclear proliferation.
(d) The Cuban Missile Crisis.

13. What was Angela Davis doing when the book begins?
(a) Hiding from the police.
(b) Moving to Chicago.
(c) Organizing a revolt.
(d) Organizing a sit-in.

14. When does the book begin?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1964.

15. Where did Angela Davis study for her junior year?
(a) Helsinki.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Angela Davis going at the beginning of the book?

2. What was Angela Davis's mother's occupation?

3. Where was Angela Davis sent right before Christmas 1970?

4. What was Angela Davis's perspective on the Birmingham church bombing?

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

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