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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Howard Moore leave the pre-trial motions to other lawyers?
(a) He had been de-barred in California.
(b) The defense team could not raise enough money for his fee.
(c) He was committed to a case in Atlanta.
(d) He had to make concessions to the local legal team.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Where was Angela Davis booked into jail in California?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Marin County.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) San Diego.

10. How long had Angela Davis been imprisoned when she was finally released on bail?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 12 months.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 16 months.

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

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

13. What did Ruchell Magee do when his petition for removal was denied?
(a) Worked with Angela Davis.
(b) Separated his case from Angela Davis'.
(c) Prepared a case for federal court.
(d) Pursued it.

14. 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 provide job skills, not Marxist indoctrination.
(b) He said they should be providing food and necessaries to poor people.
(c) He said they should be teaching people the history of black people's conflict with whites.
(d) He said they should work on educating people with basic subjects, not advanced theory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the judge order at Angela Davis's arraignment hearing?

2. Whose hands was Angela Davis holding when the verdict was read?

3. Why was Angela Davis's legal team dissolved?

4. What was the jury's verdict on the third charge against Angela Davis?

5. How did the LA police try to incite conflict after Martin Luther King's assassination?

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