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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were students protesting at the Sorbonne when Angela Davis was there in 1962?
(a) Nuclear proliferation.
(b) The Cuban Missile Crisis.
(c) The Algerian war.
(d) Communist expansion in Asia.

2. Why was Angela Davis arrested in Berlin?
(a) She had not gotten clearance when she moved.
(b) She had contraband from the East.
(c) She had become a member of the Communist Party in East Berlin.
(d) She had lived with agitators in the East.

3. Where was Angela Davis going at the beginning of the book?
(a) Echo Park.
(b) West Adams.
(c) Main County Courthouse.
(d) Chicago.

4. Describe Angela Davis's return to the U.S. from Helsinki.
(a) She was arrested.
(b) She was questioned by police.
(c) She returned without incident.
(d) She was questioned by the FBI.

5. What was the border between black and white neighborhoods where Angela Davis lived with her family?
(a) Center Street.
(b) Houston Street.
(c) The Seine.
(d) Mulholland Drive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Angela Davis go to see in Chicago?

2. What did Angela Davis say were the two levels of prison existence?

3. What organization did most of Angela Davis's friends in Germany belong to?

4. What subject was Angela Davis tending toward during her term abroad?

5. What was Angela Davis's mother doing in New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Angela Davis's high school.

2. What was Angela Davis's experience of the Birmingham church bombings?

3. How did Angela Davis communicate with her family during her flight from the police and then her imprisonment?

4. Describe Angela Davis's trip to New York for school.

5. Describe Angela Davis's relationship with her fellow prisoners.

6. What was Angela Davis's experience in Paris?

7. What did Angela Davis study in high school?

8. What was Angela Davis's family's status when she was a child, and her did her status affect her?

9. What was Angela Davis's relationship with America while she was in Europe?

10. Describe Angela Davis's trip from New York to Helsinki.

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