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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Angela Davis's trial would be relocated.
(d) That charges against Angela Davis had been dropped.

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

3. What news did Bettina Aptheker bring Angela Davis?
(a) That the Communist Party wanted to use her trial to stir up hostility against the system.
(b) That the Defense Committee wanted her to work on a book.
(c) That the Defense Committee wanted to use her trial as a accusation of the system.
(d) That the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee wanted to make a documentary of her legal defense.

4. What was the relationship between the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee and the Communist Party?
(a) They competed for members, but forced their members to choose between parties.
(b) The SNCC did not want to be associated with Communists.
(c) The two parties worked together.
(d) They worked together on political project, but the Communists worked alone in economic cases.

5. Who was included in the lunch that Angela Davis had when the jury retired?
(a) An activist from Birmingham.
(b) A writer from New York.
(c) A lawyer from Liberia.
(d) A journalist from Germany.

6. What was the purpose of the two West Coast meetings of the Black Liberation Movement?
(a) To oppose the Vietnam War.
(b) To demand a trial for the murder of Gregory Clark.
(c) To organize for future regional unity.
(d) To demand Huey Newton's freedom.

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

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

9. Whose hands was Angela Davis holding when the verdict was read?
(a) Charlene Mitchell.
(b) Tamu Ushindi.
(c) Kendra Alexander and Margaret Burnham.
(d) Carolyn Craven.

10. What did the judge order at Angela Davis's arraignment hearing?
(a) That Angela Davis be held without bail.
(b) A dismissal.
(c) Excessively high bail.
(d) A gag order.

11. When witnesses were called at Angela Davis' trial, what had they witnessed?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr's assassination.
(b) The attack at the Marin County Courthouse.
(c) The conversation where the kidnapping plan was developed.
(d) The scene where Angela purchased the guns.

12. Where did Ruchell Magee want to be tried?
(a) In Sacramento.
(b) In Marin County Court.
(c) In federal court.
(d) In Los Angeles.

13. Why did Angela Davis feel that blacks needed to avoid a conflict with police in Los Angeles?
(a) Because LA police were among the best equipped with riot gear.
(b) Because LA police had a reputation for criminal brutality.
(c) Because LA county had permissive laws regarding police brutality.
(d) Because the LA judges were traditionally biased against political protesters.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came to see Angela Davis shortly after she was booked into jail?

2. What was the first charge against Angela Davis?

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

4. Where was Angela Davis moved to when her legal team requested a change of venue?

5. Who did Angela Davis get to handle pre-trial motions?

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