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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way did Angela Davis identify with the Black Power movement?
(a) Her hair style.
(b) Her philosophy.
(c) Her political views.
(d) Her style of clothing.

2. Why did Angela Davis's legal team request a change of venue?
(a) Because the judge was a friend of the murdered judge's.
(b) Because the judge had condemned Angela Davis' actions.
(c) Because the judge had promised a conviction.
(d) Because the judge had made racist comments.

3. Who summoned Angela Davis to the courthouse on Sunday morning for the verdict?
(a) Howard Moore.
(b) Al Brotsky.
(c) Bettina Aptheker.
(d) Ruchell Magee.

4. What concession did Angela Davis's lawyers win at the arraignment hearing?
(a) An adjournment.
(b) A continuance.
(c) A dismissal.
(d) A relocation.

5. What part of her trial was Angela Davis involved in?
(a) Filing motions.
(b) Pre-trial discovery.
(c) Jury selection.
(d) Raising bond.

6. 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.

7. What status did Angela Davis obtain in order to get out of solitary confinement?
(a) Mental patient.
(b) Member of her own legal team.
(c) Legal assistant.
(d) Legal investigator.

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

9. What did Stokely Carmichael say to disappoint Angela Davis at the Los Angeles rally?
(a) That blacks would never assimilate with whites in America.
(b) That violence was going to be necessary in the Civil Rights Movement.
(c) That Marx was irrelevant to the Black Liberation Movement.
(d) That blacks should resort to non-violent forms of protest.

10. 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 agreed to hear her case.
(c) The California Supreme Court had upheld the death penalty.
(d) The California Supreme Court had refused her appeal.

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

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

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

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

15. Who came to see Angela Davis shortly after she was booked into jail?
(a) Tamu Ushindi.
(b) Franklin Alexander.
(c) Charlene Mitchell.
(d) Carolyn Craven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first charge against Angela Davis?

2. What news did Bettina Aptheker bring Angela Davis?

3. What did Ruchell Magee do when his petition for removal was denied?

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

5. Whom did the press compare Angela Davis to in coverage of the trial?

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