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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 was attractive about Fisk University?
(a) It was closer to home.
(b) It had a pediatrics program.
(c) It was fully-funded.
(d) It would let Angela Davis escape from the race tensions.

2. Why didn't Angela Davis feel she could identify with Malcolm X?
(a) Because she was not militant.
(b) Because she was not male.
(c) Because she was not poor.
(d) Because she was not Muslim.

3. Where did Angela Davis steal from as a child?
(a) Her teachers.
(b) Her father's bag of coins.
(c) The white people's grocery store.
(d) The corner store.

4. How many other freshmen were Black in Angela Davis's college class?
(a) Thirty-four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Seventeen.

5. How was the raid on Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment related to the deaths that took place immediately before the moment the book opened?
(a) The guns confiscated at the raid were used at the courthouse.
(b) The propaganda booklets they had printed had been the trigger for the shootout with the police.
(c) Angela Davis was trying to free Franklin and Kendra Alexander from the courthouse when the people were killed.
(d) The drugs confiscated were found in the police station.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization did Angela Davis join in high school?

2. When does the book begin?

3. What conclusion did Angela Davis draw after her trip to Helsinki?

4. What was Angela Davis's perspective on the Birmingham church bombing?

5. How did Angela Davis and her friends show support for the organization her parents belonged to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the conditions of Angela Davis's arrest.

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

3. Describe Angela Davis's arrival at college.

4. Where was Angela Davis kept when she was in prison, and when was she moved?

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

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

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

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

9. Why was Angela Davis in hiding at the beginning of the book?

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

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