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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Angela Davis going at the beginning of the book?
(a) West Adams.
(b) Echo Park.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Main County Courthouse.

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

3. What did Angela Davis see on the news in Detroit?
(a) A report on her crimes.
(b) A report that she had been seen at her parents' house.
(c) News that her parents had been arrested.
(d) News that David Poindexter was in custody.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who was with Angela Davis when the book begins?
(a) William Christmas.
(b) James McClain.
(c) Helen.
(d) Jonathan Jackson.

10. Where was Angela Davis's high school?
(a) South Side Chicago.
(b) Greenwich Village.
(c) Birmingham, AL.
(d) Brooklyn.

11. What was Angela Davis trying on when the book begins?
(a) A wig.
(b) Boots.
(c) Sunglasses.
(d) A dress.

12. What were Franklin and Kendra Alexander charged with?
(a) Inciting a revolt.
(b) Armed robbery.
(c) Conspiracy to commit robbery.
(d) Conspiracy to commit murder.

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

14. Where was Angela Davis sent right before Christmas 1970?
(a) The mental ward.
(b) Chicago.
(c) The general prison population.
(d) California.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Angela Davis's current situation begin?

2. How did some students react to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

3. Whom did Angela Davis travel to Helsinki with?

4. Where had the deaths of McClain and Christmas and the other person taken place?

5. Who were James McClain and William Christmas?

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