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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 Angela Davis's mother's occupation?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Secretary.
(d) Cleaning lady.

2. 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) Angela Davis was trying to free Franklin and Kendra Alexander from the courthouse when the people were killed.
(b) The drugs confiscated were found in the police station.
(c) The guns confiscated at the raid were used at the courthouse.
(d) The propaganda booklets they had printed had been the trigger for the shootout with the police.

3. Who were James McClain and William Christmas?
(a) They were wardens.
(b) They were deputies.
(c) They were innocent bystanders.
(d) They were prisoners.

4. Whom did Angela Davis travel to Helsinki with?
(a) Flo.
(b) Gwen.
(c) Harriet.
(d) Woody.

5. What did Angela Davis learn about Birmingham when she was in New York?
(a) How segregated Birmingham was.
(b) That it is impossible to live without racial tension, even in affluence.
(c) That she could pass a white.
(d) That blacks in New York were as poor as in Birmingham.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Angela Davis nervous about leaving her location?

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

3. Where did Angela Davis study for her junior year?

4. Where did Angela Davis's current situation begin?

5. Who owned and operated Angela Davis's high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Angela Davis's arrival at college.

2. Where was Angela Davis at the beginning of the book, and where was she going?

3. Describe Angela Davis's travels in Germany.

4. What conclusions did Angela Davis reach as a result of her time in Helsinki?

5. What was it like for Angela Davis during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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

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

8. What did Angela Davis study in high school?

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

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

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