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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ruchell Magee do when his petition for removal was denied?
(a) Separated his case from Angela Davis'.
(b) Pursued it.
(c) Prepared a case for federal court.
(d) Worked with Angela Davis.

2. Why did Angela Davis believe that Blacks did not trust Marxism?
(a) They did not want to abolish owners, they wanted the right to be owners themselves.
(b) They distrusted the equalizing promises of proletarian ownership.
(c) They saw it as part of white culture.
(d) They needed historical redress, not just economic inclusion.

3. What did Angela Davis learn on March 27 when the jury recessed for lunch?
(a) That charges against Angela Davis had been dropped.
(b) That Angela Davis's trial would be relocated.
(c) That George Jackson had been murdered.
(d) That the Soledad brothers had been acquitted.

4. What was the second charge against Angela Davis?
(a) Kidnapping.
(b) Harboring criminals.
(c) Conspiracy.
(d) Murder.

5. Why was there a large crowd outside the courthouse on the second day of Angela Davis's trial?
(a) Someone had come with a gun to the trial.
(b) There had been an escape attempt at the men's prison.
(c) One of the jurors had been threatened.
(d) Someone had threatened the judge's life.

6. What did Angela Davis say in her opening statement?
(a) That George Jackson had brought her to the movement.
(b) That George Jackson had been her lover.
(c) That she was not involved with George Jackson.
(d) That she joined the movement after she met George Jackson.

7. What was the jury's verdict on the second charge against Angela Davis?
(a) Not guilty.
(b) Guilty.
(c) The count was thrown out.
(d) Guilty with prejudice.

8. How was Angela Davis received by the black movement in San Diego when she arrived there?
(a) Coolly.
(b) Warmly.
(c) Enthusiastically.
(d) Warily.

9. How did the judges handle Angela Davis's case?
(a) They recused themselves because they knew the murdered judge.
(b) They banded together in solidarity with the murdered judge.
(c) They helped the prosecution in every way they could, to avenge the murdered judge.
(d) They forced the trial to be moved because it could not be fair when there was so much public outcry about it.

10. What did Angela Davis say about Jonathan Jackson in her opening statement?
(a) The difficulties he had because of his brother's imprisonment.
(b) The harmful effect George Jackson's imprisonment had on him.
(c) The difficult life he had had as a child.
(d) The legal costs he had borne because of his brother's imprisonment.

11. Who did Angela Davis spend her time in London with?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Herbert Marcuse.
(c) Friends.
(d) The Black Power group.

12. In her opening statement, what did Angela Davis say motivated her action?
(a) Desire for George Jackson.
(b) Desire to establish race equality.
(c) Desire to end repression.
(d) Desire to abolish the prison system.

13. Where was Angela Davis the representative for the Black Panthers?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Chicago.
(c) San Diego.
(d) New York.

14. What were the Soledad Brothers accused of?
(a) Harboring the Black Panthers.
(b) Attacking the Marin County Courthouse.
(c) Killing three inmates.
(d) Murdering a prison guard.

15. Whose lectures did Angela Davis stop in London for when she was traveling back to the U.S.?
(a) Martin Luther King.
(b) Stokely Carmichael.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Jean-Paul Sartre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Stokely Carmichael say to disappoint Angela Davis at the Los Angeles rally?

2. What was Angela Davis's status as a leader in the Black movement?

3. Who was Gus Hall?

4. Why was Angela Davis's legal team dissolved?

5. What ultimately came of the demands that interrupted the trial?

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