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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Angela Davis and two other women take over the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee LA chapter?
(a) Men in the Black Liberation Movement feel undermined.
(b) Men in the SNCC form their own organization.
(c) Men in the Black Panthers harden their sexist rhetoric.
(d) Women members withdraw from the SNCC under pressure from the men.

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

3. What happened when the truth of the demands that interrupted the trial became known?
(a) The jury gave its verdict.
(b) Angela Davis returned to waiting for the verdict.
(c) Angela Davis was freed.
(d) The trial was declared a mistrial.

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

5. What state was the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee in when Martin Luther King was shot?
(a) Confidently organizing protests nation-wide.
(b) Successful in bringing splinter groups together.
(c) Underfunded, with bad morale.
(d) Riven with internal conflicts.

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

7. 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 Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee wanted to make a documentary of her legal defense.
(c) That the Defense Committee wanted to use her trial as a accusation of the system.
(d) That the Defense Committee wanted her to work on a book.

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

9. When did Angela Davis return to the U.S.?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1968.

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In her opening statement, what did Angela Davis say motivated her action?

2. What was Franklin Alexander's response when the verdict was read?

3. What criterion did Angela Davis insist her lawyers agree on?

4. What demands were conveyed to Angela Davis and the court?

5. Why did Angela Davis's legal team request a change of venue?

(see the answer keys)

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