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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when security measures were eased on the second day of Angela Davis's trial?
(a) Someone burst into the courthouse with a gun.
(b) One of the jurors was attacked.
(c) Trial participants entered the courtroom and the trial was adjourned for the day.
(d) Someone escaped from custody.

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

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

5. What was Angela Davis supposed to be wearing when she met the people making the demands that disturbed the trial?
(a) A white dress.
(b) A black hair wrap.
(c) A black scarf.
(d) A black dress.

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

7. Who did Angela Davis get to handle pre-trial motions?
(a) Ruchell Magee.
(b) Bettina Aptheker.
(c) Al Brotsky.
(d) Howard Moore.

8. What ultimately came of the demands that interrupted the trial?
(a) Angela Davis flew to Oakland.
(b) Angela Davis was freed.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The police apprehended the person who made the demands.

9. Why did Angela Davis's legal team request a change of venue?
(a) Because the judge had made racist comments.
(b) Because the judge had promised a conviction.
(c) Because the judge had condemned Angela Davis' actions.
(d) Because the judge was a friend of the murdered judge's.

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

11. Where did Angela Davis want to be tried?
(a) In State court.
(b) In federal court.
(c) In Los Angeles.
(d) In New York.

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

13. Where was Gregory Clark when he was shot?
(a) Handcuffed on the ground.
(b) Standing in a vestibule to an apartment building.
(c) Running into an alley.
(d) Driving away from a nightclub.

14. How did Angela Davis treat her trial?
(a) As a platform for her opinions.
(b) As coordinated with the movement in the streets.
(c) As a chance to promote herself within the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee.
(d) As a chance to catch the system in its lies.

15. Whom did the press compare Angela Davis to in coverage of the trial?
(a) Franklin Alexander.
(b) Bettina Aptheker.
(c) Sheldon Otis.
(d) Ruchell Magee.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emergency caused Angela Davis's lawyer to have to leave the prison suddenly?

2. Why did Angela Davis feel that blacks needed to avoid a conflict with police in Los Angeles?

3. What was the second charge against Angela Davis?

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

5. Why was Angela Davis arrested after a demonstration against the Vietnam War?

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