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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 did Angela Davis learn on March 27 when the jury recessed for lunch?
(a) That the Soledad brothers had been acquitted.
(b) That Angela Davis's trial would be relocated.
(c) That charges against Angela Davis had been dropped.
(d) That George Jackson had been murdered.

2. What news did Bettina Aptheker bring Angela Davis?
(a) That the Defense Committee wanted to use her trial as a accusation of the system.
(b) That the Defense Committee wanted her to work on a book.
(c) That the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee wanted to make a documentary of her legal defense.
(d) That the Communist Party wanted to use her trial to stir up hostility against the system.

3. What did Angela Davis say in her opening statement?
(a) That she joined the movement after she met George Jackson.
(b) That George Jackson had been her lover.
(c) That she was not involved with George Jackson.
(d) That George Jackson had brought her to the movement.

4. When did Angela Davis return to the U.S.?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1967.

5. How long was Angela Davis asked to remain in the court after she returned from lunch while the jury was out?
(a) Until the bomb threat could be resolved.
(b) Until the hijacking situation was resolved.
(c) Until the juror's attacker could be found.
(d) Until the judge felt better.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Angela Davis conclude from the LA police's methods in inciting conflict after the assassination of Martin Luther King?

2. Where was Angela Davis the representative for the Black Panthers?

3. What did Stokely Carmichael say to disappoint Angela Davis at the Los Angeles rally?

4. Where was Angela Davis supposed to meet the people making the demands that disturbed the trial?

5. How did the judges handle Angela Davis's case?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role did Angela Davis play in the Black Panthers Political Party?

2. Describe the genesis of the book Angela Davis wrote from prison.

3. What did the prosecution build its case against Angela Davis on?

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

5. What did Angela Davis and her legal team learn about the Soledad Brothers during her trial?

6. Describe the lunch Angela Davis had while the jury was deliberating.

7. What was Angela Davis's philosophy for winning race equality?

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

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

10. What was the relationship between different black liberation organizations when Angela Davis returned to California?

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