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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Describe Angela Davis's freshman year.
(a) She was politically active.
(b) She didn't study much.
(c) She was socially active.
(d) She worked hard in classes.

2. Where did Angela Davis's current situation begin?
(a) At a house in West Adams, CA.
(b) At the O'Hare Airport in Chicago.
(c) At a cocktail fundraiser for the SNCC of the Communist Party.
(d) In Greenwich Village, NY.

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

4. What kind of scholarship did Angela Davis get for college?
(a) Full scholarship.
(b) Work-study funding.
(c) Partial scholarship.
(d) No scholarship.

5. What was attractive about Fisk University?
(a) It had a pediatrics program.
(b) It was closer to home.
(c) It would let Angela Davis escape from the race tensions.
(d) It was fully-funded.

6. 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.

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

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

9. Where was Angela Davis arrested?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Miami.
(c) Detroit.
(d) New York.

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

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

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

13. Where had the deaths of McClain and Christmas and the other person taken place?
(a) University of California.
(b) Marin County Courthouse.
(c) San Quentin Prison.
(d) Echo Park.

14. What organization were Angela Davis's parents members of?
(a) Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee.
(b) The Communist Party.
(c) Students for a Democratic Society.
(d) The NAACP.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does the book begin?

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

4. Who owned and operated Angela Davis's high school?

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

(see the answer keys)

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