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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 meet her friends in Europe before going to Helsinki?
(a) St. Petersburg.
(b) London.
(c) Glasgow.
(d) Paris.

3. Who called Angela Davis after she was arrested?
(a) Robert Lohman.
(b) Gerald Lefcourt.
(c) Jonathan Jackson
(d) David Poindexter.

4. Where was Angela Davis when Kennedy was assassinated?
(a) London.
(b) Frankfurt.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Paris.

5. What organization did most of Angela Davis's friends in Germany belong to?
(a) The German Socialist League.
(b) The Black Liberation Movement.
(c) The NAACP.
(d) The Communist Party.

6. What was Angela Davis doing when the book begins?
(a) Organizing a sit-in.
(b) Hiding from the police.
(c) Moving to Chicago.
(d) Organizing a revolt.

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

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

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

10. What was Angela Davis's perspective on the Birmingham church bombing?
(a) That the best response to violence was compassion.
(b) That the whole of society was guilty of murdering the girls.
(c) That the perpetrators must be found and made an example of.
(d) That the race conflict was really a class conflict.

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

12. What was Angela Davis's family's class status?
(a) Outcast.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) Middle-class.
(d) Poor.

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

14. How was the raid on Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment related to the deaths that took place immediately before the moment the book opened?
(a) The propaganda booklets they had printed had been the trigger for the shootout with the police.
(b) The guns confiscated at the raid were used at the courthouse.
(c) The drugs confiscated were found in the police station.
(d) Angela Davis was trying to free Franklin and Kendra Alexander from the courthouse when the people were killed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Angela Davis been teaching before the time the book began?

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

3. How did Angela Davis travel to high school?

4. Where did Angela Davis steal from as a child?

5. Whom did Angela Davis travel to Helsinki with?

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