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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. What is Angela Davis learning when she made her trip at the beginning of the book?
(a) How not to be detected by cops.
(b) How to organize a revolt.
(c) How to smuggle guns.
(d) How to liberate political prisoners.

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

3. Whose family did Angela Davis spend time with in New York as a child?
(a) Herbert Marcuse.
(b) James Jackson.
(c) Margaret Burnham.
(d) Reverend and Mrs. Melish.

4. Where was Angela Davis when the book began?
(a) West Adams.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Echo Park.
(d) Main County Courthouse.

5. What did Angela Davis say were the two levels of prison existence?
(a) The police culture and the guard culture.
(b) The prisoners with appeals and the life prisoners.
(c) The official rules and the prisoner culture.
(d) The political prisoner culture and the other prisoners' culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Angela Davis doing when the book begins?

2. What was Angela Davis's feeling about Cuba when she was in Helsinki?

3. What philosophy did Angela Davis write her dissertation on?

4. What was the border between black and white neighborhoods where Angela Davis lived with her family?

5. Why was Angela Davis arrested in Berlin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the decision that led Angela Davis out of Birmingham.

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

4. Why had Angela Davis lost her teaching position at the University of California?

5. With whom did Angela Davis hide while she was running from the police?

6. What did Angela Davis attribute her current situation to?

7. Describe Angela Davis's experience at the Helsinki festival.

8. What did Angela Davis's teachers tell her about hard work, and what was Davis's response to them?

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

10. Describe Angela Davis's arrival at college.

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