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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Angela Davis's status as a leader in the Black movement?
(a) She was considered too ambitious.
(b) She was criticized.
(c) She was appreciated.
(d) She was considered too young by many.

2. Why was Angela Davis arrested after a demonstration against the Vietnam War?
(a) She was caught with weapons in her car.
(b) She was suspected of conspiring against the government.
(c) She had been caught in acts of violence.
(d) She had raised bond for arrested protestors.

3. What did Angela Davis use her initiation into the Black Panthers to do?
(a) Think about how to found a political collective.
(b) Think about whether to join the Communist Party.
(c) Think about how to oppose the Vietnam War.
(d) Think about how to unify black movement organizations.

4. What was Angela Davis's relationship with Rap Brown?
(a) She was arrested with him.
(b) She served with him in the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee.
(c) She raised funds for his bail.
(d) They worked together in the Black Panthers.

5. What did Angela Davis do that technically violated her bail bond?
(a) Spoke with the people who had helped raise her bond.
(b) Traveled to Chicago.
(c) Visited with her mother.
(d) Appeared at the Soledad Brothers' trial.

6. Where was Gregory Clark when he was shot?
(a) Handcuffed on the ground.
(b) Running into an alley.
(c) Driving away from a nightclub.
(d) Standing in a vestibule to an apartment building.

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

8. What demands were conveyed to Angela Davis and the court?
(a) The hijackers wanted her to meet their plane.
(b) Journalists demanded to be let into the courtroom.
(c) The juror's attacker wanted Angela Davis to be freed.
(d) The prosecution demanded a conviction.

9. Who did Angela Davis get to handle pre-trial motions?
(a) Al Brotsky.
(b) Bettina Aptheker.
(c) Ruchell Magee.
(d) Howard Moore.

10. What did Richard Arnason do for Angela Davis?
(a) Set bail.
(b) Prevented her from writing about her trial.
(c) Returned her to solitary confinement.
(d) Eased some restraints on her imprisonment.

11. What did Angela Davis learn while she was waiting to be transferred to the courthouse?
(a) The California Supreme Court had abolished the death penalty.
(b) The California Supreme Court had upheld the death penalty.
(c) The California Supreme Court had agreed to hear her case.
(d) The California Supreme Court had refused her appeal.

12. What were Angela Davis's jail conditions like after she was first moved to her new jail?
(a) Comfortable.
(b) Luxurious.
(c) Spartan.
(d) Deplorable.

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

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

15. What happened when security measures were eased on the second day of Angela Davis's trial?
(a) Someone escaped from custody.
(b) Someone burst into the courthouse with a gun.
(c) Trial participants entered the courtroom and the trial was adjourned for the day.
(d) One of the jurors was attacked.

Short Answer Questions

1. What criticism did the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee national representative make of Angela Davis's leadership of the LA chapter?

2. When did Angela Davis return to the U.S.?

3. What did Franklin Alexander do after Gregory Clark's murder?

4. How does Angela Davis explain the press's coverage of herself and her co-defendant?

5. What did Angela Davis suspect about newspaper accounts of the second day of her trial?

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