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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 return to the U.S. from Helsinki.
(a) She was questioned by the FBI.
(b) She was questioned by police.
(c) She returned without incident.
(d) She was arrested.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Where was Angela Davis when the book began?
(a) Main County Courthouse.
(b) Echo Park.
(c) Chicago.
(d) West Adams.

8. What was the border between black and white neighborhoods where Angela Davis lived with her family?
(a) Mulholland Drive.
(b) Houston Street.
(c) Center Street.
(d) The Seine.

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

15. Why did Angela Davis choose the major she chose?
(a) Because language is an easy barrier to remove.
(b) Because politics is the study of power.
(c) Because literature fosters compassion and understanding.
(d) Because studying other cultures brings understanding at home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Angela Davis's high school?

2. How did the church bombing in Birmingham touch Angela Davis?

3. How was Angela Davis involved in the police raid on Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment?

4. Who were James McClain and William Christmas?

5. How did Angela Davis travel to high school?

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