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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Angela Davis's feeling about Cuba when she was in Helsinki?
(a) She was appalled by conditions in Cuba.
(b) She was invited to travel there herself.
(c) She was critical of the direction the Cuban revolution was taking.
(d) She was impressed with the Cuban delegates.

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

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

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

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

9. Who did Angela Davis live with during high school?
(a) Margaret Burnham.
(b) James Jackson's family.
(c) Her parents.
(d) Reverend and Mrs. Melish.

10. How did some students react to the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(a) They went about their classes.
(b) They moved to Canada.
(c) They marched on Washington.
(d) They published threats against the Russians.

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. Where did Angela Davis want to go during her last year of high school?
(a) Paris to study abroad.
(b) Birmingham to work in the civil rights movement.
(c) Canada to escape from American race tensions.
(d) Chicago to work with the Students for a Democratic Society.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Angela Davis try to free from the police?

2. Who was with Angela Davis when the book begins?

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

4. Where did Angela Davis study for her junior year?

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

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