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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. How did Angela Davis and her friends show support for the organization her parents belonged to?
(a) By studying hard and getting good grades.
(b) By refusing to go to the back of the bus.
(c) By eating in white-only restaurants.
(d) By giving money to the poor.

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

3. What was the level of involvement in the Civil Rights movement in Angela Davis's high school?
(a) There were race riots and sit-ins.
(b) The students organized racial cooperation.
(c) There were non-violent protests.
(d) There was very little interest.

4. How was Angela Davis involved in the police raid on Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment?
(a) She had written some of the propaganda essays.
(b) She had drawn up the plan to commit robbery.
(c) The guns were registered to her.
(d) She had called for revolt in one of her essays.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Angela Davis's father's occupation?

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

3. What was Angela Davis trying on when the book begins?

4. What did the police confiscate at Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment?

5. Where was Angela Davis sent right before Christmas 1970?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Angela Davis's childhood experience of racism.

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

3. What was Angela Davis's experience of the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement?

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

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

6. What was Angela Davis's first experience of life outside the South, free of racism?

7. What movement had Angela Davis been involved in when she went into hiding from the police?

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

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

10. Describe Angela Davis's travels in Germany.

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