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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. Why was Angela Davis's legal team dissolved?
(a) Charges against her had been dropped.
(b) The pre-trial work was complete.
(c) She had been released on bail.
(d) She had won a mistrial.

2. Where did Angela Davis go after being released on bail?
(a) Her parents' home.
(b) Bettina and Jack's home.
(c) Ruchell Magee's home.
(d) Franklin Alexander's home.

3. What were the Soledad Brothers accused of?
(a) Harboring the Black Panthers.
(b) Attacking the Marin County Courthouse.
(c) Killing three inmates.
(d) Murdering a prison guard.

4. 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 refused her appeal.
(c) The California Supreme Court had upheld the death penalty.
(d) The California Supreme Court had abolished the death penalty.

5. How does Angela Davis explain the press's coverage of herself and her co-defendant?
(a) She things they want to destroy any solidarity between them.
(b) She thinks they are trying to reduce them to hysterical women.
(c) She thinks they are intent on building up their radicalism.
(d) She things they are trying to paint them as lunatics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Angela Davis's relationship with Rap Brown?

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

3. Why did Angela Davis feel that blacks needed to avoid a conflict with police in Los Angeles?

4. What caused Angela Davis to be moved to a new cell?

5. What did the judge order at Angela Davis's arraignment hearing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What caused the change in venue for Angela Davis's trial?

2. What event made Angela Davis and her legal team consider filing for a relocation?

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

4. What political activity did Angela Davis get involved in almost as soon as she returned to the U.S.?

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

6. What were Angela Davis's feelings about the Black Power group and other black movements in England?

7. Whose hands was Angela Davis holding when the verdicts were read?

8. Describe Angela Davis's experience in London on her way back to America.

9. How did Angela Davis technically violate the terms of her bail bond?

10. What happened that allowed Angela Davis to be set free on bail?

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