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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) She had drawn up the plan to commit robbery.
(c) The guns were registered to her.
(d) She had written some of the propaganda essays.

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

4. Why didn't Angela Davis leave the country?
(a) She was afraid of being caught.
(b) She wanted to be close to the movement.
(c) She did not have a passport.
(d) She wanted to be close to her family.

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

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

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

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

9. How did Angela Davis feel attending high school?
(a) Like a valued contributor to the school's culture.
(b) Like a despised minority.
(c) Like an outsider.
(d) Like one of the gang.

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

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

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

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

14. Where had Angela Davis been teaching before the time the book began?
(a) San Francisco State College.
(b) University of Chicago.
(c) Oxford University.
(d) University of California.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Angela Davis's mother's occupation?

2. Where did Angela Davis go from Chicago?

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

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

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

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