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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 thinks they are trying to reduce them to hysterical women.
(c) She things they want to destroy any solidarity between them.
(d) She things they are trying to paint them as lunatics.

2. Where was Angela Davis supposed to meet the people making the demands that disturbed the trial?
(a) In Chicago.
(b) At the airport in San Francisco.
(c) In New York.
(d) In front of the courthouse.

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

4. Why did Angela Davis believe that Blacks did not trust Marxism?
(a) They saw it as part of white culture.
(b) They needed historical redress, not just economic inclusion.
(c) They did not want to abolish owners, they wanted the right to be owners themselves.
(d) They distrusted the equalizing promises of proletarian ownership.

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

6. What was Angela Davis supposed to have with her, according to the demands that interrupted her trial?
(a) Other political prisoners.
(b) $102,500 and the Soledad Brothers.
(c) Printing materials and a papers from her legal defense.
(d) $500,000 and five parachutes.

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

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

9. Whose hands was Angela Davis holding when the verdict was read?
(a) Tamu Ushindi.
(b) Kendra Alexander and Margaret Burnham.
(c) Charlene Mitchell.
(d) Carolyn Craven.

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

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

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

13. What did the judge order at Angela Davis's arraignment hearing?
(a) A gag order.
(b) Excessively high bail.
(c) That Angela Davis be held without bail.
(d) A dismissal.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the second charge against Angela Davis?

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

3. What happens when Angela Davis and two other women take over the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee LA chapter?

4. Who approached Angela Davis as soon as she entered the conference in London?

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

(see the answer keys)

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