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

2. 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) She had called for revolt in one of her essays.
(d) The guns were registered to her.

3. Where did Angela Davis's family move when Angela Davis was four?
(a) Paris.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Center Street.
(d) New York City.

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

5. What did Angela Davis decide at a young age?
(a) That she would become a doctor, and provide for her family without getting into the race problems.
(b) That she would show white people that blacks were just as capable as them.
(c) That she would run away from America and its race tensions.
(d) That she would stay in America and fight for race equality.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why was Angela Davis's neighborhood called Dynamite Hill?

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

4. Describe Angela Davis's return to the U.S. from Helsinki.

5. Why was Angela Davis arrested in Berlin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Angela Davis's arrival at college.

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

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

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

6. Describe Angela Davis's high school.

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

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

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

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

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