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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Angela Davis received by the black movement in San Diego when she arrived there?
(a) Warmly.
(b) Enthusiastically.
(c) Coolly.
(d) Warily.

2. Why was Angela Davis's legal team dissolved?
(a) The pre-trial work was complete.
(b) Charges against her had been dropped.
(c) She had won a mistrial.
(d) She had been released on bail.

3. Whose lectures did Angela Davis stop in London for when she was traveling back to the U.S.?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Stokely Carmichael.
(c) Martin Luther King.
(d) Jean-Paul Sartre.

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

5. Why was the door suddenly guarded by police when Angela Davis was having lunch while the jury was out?
(a) A plane had been hijacked in Seattle.
(b) A juror had been attacked.
(c) Someone had tried to escape from the prison.
(d) The judge had freed Angela Davis.

6. What kind of response to racism did Angela Davis believe would go nowhere?
(a) Calculated, articulate responses.
(b) Diplomatic responses.
(c) Peaceful responses.
(d) Emotional or angry responses.

7. What did Franklin Alexander do after Gregory Clark's murder?
(a) Convince the protesters to disperse.
(b) Incite the crowds to call for blood.
(c) Organize the protests calling for a trial of the policeman.
(d) Quiet the crowds calling for blood.

8. What did Angela Davis do that technically violated her bail bond?
(a) Appeared at the Soledad Brothers' trial.
(b) Traveled to Chicago.
(c) Visited with her mother.
(d) Spoke with the people who had helped raise her bond.

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

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

11. 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.

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

13. Where did Angela Davis go after being released on bail?
(a) Bettina and Jack's home.
(b) Her parents' home.
(c) Ruchell Magee's home.
(d) Franklin Alexander's home.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Angela Davis supposed to meet the people making the demands that disturbed the trial?

2. What did Richard Arnason do for Angela Davis?

3. Who did Angela Davis spend her time in London with?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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