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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 state was the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee in when Martin Luther King was shot?
(a) Underfunded, with bad morale.
(b) Riven with internal conflicts.
(c) Successful in bringing splinter groups together.
(d) Confidently organizing protests nation-wide.

2. What did Angela Davis conclude from the LA police's methods in inciting conflict after the assassination of Martin Luther King?
(a) She saw the government sowing discord among the protesters with undercover cops spreading misinformation.
(b) She thought that the government feared the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee's educational methods more than violence.
(c) She thought that the government was going straight for the leaders, to incite confusion and tension in the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee.
(d) She realized that the government was more afraid of blacks' collective bargaining power than their civil rights.

3. What emergency caused Angela Davis's lawyer to have to leave the prison suddenly?
(a) Angela Davis was to be transferred to another prison.
(b) The judge was threatened.
(c) Ruchell Magee was murdered.
(d) George was murdered.

4. What ultimately came of the demands that interrupted the trial?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Angela Davis flew to Oakland.
(c) The police apprehended the person who made the demands.
(d) Angela Davis was freed.

5. What did Angela Davis learn while she was waiting to be transferred to the courthouse?
(a) The California Supreme Court had agreed to hear her case.
(b) The California Supreme Court had abolished the death penalty.
(c) The California Supreme Court had upheld the death penalty.
(d) The California Supreme Court had refused her appeal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What demands were conveyed to Angela Davis and the court?

2. Who did Angela Davis get to handle pre-trial motions?

3. What was the purpose of the two West Coast meetings of the Black Liberation Movement?

4. Who was included in the lunch that Angela Davis had when the jury retired?

5. Who came to see Angela Davis shortly after she was booked into jail?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the conditions when Angela Davis arrived in the Santa Clara jail.

2. What was the mood among Davis's legal team when the verdicts were read?

3. What act of terrorism seemed to involve Angela Davis during her trial?

4. Who was Gregory Clark, and what influence did he have on Angela Davis's life?

5. Where did Angela Davis go after she was free on bail?

6. What was Angela Davis's relationship with her co-defendant, Ruchell Magee?

7. What did the judge read from at the close of Angela Davis's trial?

8. What were the three charges against Angela Davis, and what were the three verdicts?

9. What strategy did the police take in opposing the black liberation movements?

10. What was Franklin Alexander's position on black liberation?

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