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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 happened when the truth of the demands that interrupted the trial became known?
(a) The jury gave its verdict.
(b) Angela Davis returned to waiting for the verdict.
(c) Angela Davis was freed.
(d) The trial was declared a mistrial.

2. Who approached Angela Davis as soon as she entered the conference in London?
(a) The Black Power group.
(b) Cuban students.
(c) The Black Panthers.
(d) Malcolm X.

3. Why did Angela Davis believe that Blacks did not trust Marxism?
(a) They needed historical redress, not just economic inclusion.
(b) They distrusted the equalizing promises of proletarian ownership.
(c) They saw it as part of white culture.
(d) They did not want to abolish owners, they wanted the right to be owners themselves.

4. What did Angela Davis base her defense on, in part?
(a) The probability that evidence had been tampered with.
(b) The likelihood that the grand jury's indictment reflected the judge's bias.
(c) The prospect that the government was just looking for a scapegoat for the Marin County Courthouse attack.
(d) The fact that her trial cannot be separated from contemporary politics.

5. What concession did Angela Davis's lawyers win at the arraignment hearing?
(a) A continuance.
(b) A relocation.
(c) A dismissal.
(d) An adjournment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Angela Davis have lunch when the jury retired?

2. How did Angela Davis treat her trial?

3. Whose lectures did Angela Davis stop in London for when she was traveling back to the U.S.?

4. What did Angela Davis use her initiation into the Black Panthers to do?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Angela Davis's philosophy on handling her defense in court?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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