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

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

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

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

5. What subject was Angela Davis tending toward during her term abroad?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Politics.
(c) French.
(d) English.

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

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

8. How was Angela Davis involved in the police raid on Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment?
(a) She had drawn up the plan to commit robbery.
(b) She had called for revolt in one of her essays.
(c) The guns were registered to her.
(d) She had written some of the propaganda essays.

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

10. Where did Angela Davis go from Chicago?
(a) Alabama.
(b) New York and then Miami.
(c) Las Vegas and then Los Angeles.
(d) Canada.

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

12. What was Angela Davis's mother doing in New York?
(a) Organizing workers.
(b) Working on her masters degree.
(c) Working for the Communist Party.
(d) Fleeing from McCarthyist persecution in the South.

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

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

15. Whom did Angela Davis go to see in Chicago?
(a) Hattie and John.
(b) David Poindexter.
(c) Gerald Lefcourt.
(d) The Soledad brothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis at Angela Davis's college?

2. Why didn't Angela Davis feel she could identify with Malcolm X?

3. What did Angela Davis major in after her trip to Helsinki?

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

5. When did Angela Davis and her companion plan to leave their location?

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