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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 did Angela Davis want to go during her last year of high school?
(a) Paris to study abroad.
(b) Chicago to work with the Students for a Democratic Society.
(c) Canada to escape from American race tensions.
(d) Birmingham to work in the civil rights movement.

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

3. 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.

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

5. How old was Angela Davis when the Civil Rights movement began?
(a) Entering grade school.
(b) Entering high school.
(c) Entering kindergarten.
(d) Entering college.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't Angela Davis join the communist movement at her college?

2. Who was with Angela Davis when the book begins?

3. Where was Angela Davis arrested?

4. What organization were Angela Davis's parents members of?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What was Angela Davis's reaction to Malcolm X?

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