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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What criticism did the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee national representative make of Angela Davis's leadership of the LA chapter?
(a) He said they should be providing food and necessaries to poor people.
(b) He said they should work on educating people with basic subjects, not advanced theory.
(c) He said they should be teaching people the history of black people's conflict with whites.
(d) He said they should provide job skills, not Marxist indoctrination.

2. What caused Angela Davis to be moved to a new cell?
(a) The murder of other political prisoners.
(b) Death threats from other inmates.
(c) A petition to the court.
(d) Nation-wide protests.

3. 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 two parties worked together.
(c) The SNCC did not want to be associated with Communists.
(d) They worked together on political project, but the Communists worked alone in economic cases.

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

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

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

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

8. What was Franklin Alexander's view of racism?
(a) That racism is fundamentally cultural, not economic.
(b) That racism is against whites' interest a well.
(c) That racism would persist as long as the history of slavery had not been atoned for.
(d) That racism makes a profit for whites.

9. How would you characterize the relationship between the different organizations in the black movement?
(a) Fractured.
(b) United.
(c) Cooperative.
(d) Harmonious.

10. How long was Angela Davis asked to remain in the court after she returned from lunch while the jury was out?
(a) Until the hijacking situation was resolved.
(b) Until the bomb threat could be resolved.
(c) Until the juror's attacker could be found.
(d) Until the judge felt better.

11. How does Angela Davis explain the press's coverage of herself and her co-defendant?
(a) She thinks they are intent on building up their radicalism.
(b) She things they are trying to paint them as lunatics.
(c) She things they want to destroy any solidarity between them.
(d) She thinks they are trying to reduce them to hysterical women.

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

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

14. 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.

15. What was Angela Davis impression of race relations in London?
(a) She though it was counterproductive for blacks to see whites as their enemy.
(b) She thought that justice would only come from violent means.
(c) She thought it was reasonable for blacks to petition whites for redress of historical grievances.
(d) She thought it was unfair that blacks should still be treated so poorly in affluent nations.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way did Angela Davis identify with the Black Power movement?

2. How long had Angela Davis been imprisoned when she was finally released on bail?

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

4. Why was there a large crowd outside the courthouse on the second day of Angela Davis's trial?

5. On what basis did Angela Davis's lawyers win this concession at her arraignment hearing?

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