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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 steal from as a child?
(a) The white people's grocery store.
(b) Her teachers.
(c) The corner store.
(d) Her father's bag of coins.

2. How many other freshmen were Black in Angela Davis's college class?
(a) Two.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Thirty-four.
(d) Three.

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

4. Who had been killed two days prior to the moment when the book begins?
(a) Franklin Alexander.
(b) Jonathan Jackson.
(c) Robert Lohman.
(d) Kendra Alexander.

5. Whom did Angela Davis try to free from the police?
(a) Carolyn Craven.
(b) Her roommate Tamu Ushindi.
(c) The Soledad brothers.
(d) Franklin and Kendra Alexander.

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

7. Why was Angela Davis nervous about leaving her location?
(a) She was not sure she would have enough money for her trip.
(b) She was uncertain about the trip she was making.
(c) She was not sure where to meet her contact.
(d) She was a wanted woman.

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

9. What did Angela Davis decide at a young age?
(a) That she would run away from America and its race tensions.
(b) That she would become a doctor, and provide for her family without getting into the race problems.
(c) That she would show white people that blacks were just as capable as them.
(d) That she would stay in America and fight for race equality.

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

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

12. What was Angela Davis's personality like in school?
(a) She was bookish and shy.
(b) She was dabbling in different occupational tracks.
(c) She always stepped into confrontations.
(d) She was aloof and solitary.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Angela Davis want to go during her last year of high school?

3. Describe Angela Davis's freshman year.

4. What was Angela Davis's family's class status?

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

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