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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Angela Davis's teachers tell her and her classmates?

2. What did Angela Davis learn about Birmingham when she was in New York?

3. Why were students protesting at the Sorbonne when Angela Davis was there in 1962?

4. Why had Angela Davis lost her teaching position?

5. How did Angela Davis and her friends show support for the organization her parents belonged to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Angela Davis's travels in Germany.

2. What was Angela Davis's experience of the Birmingham church bombings?

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

4. What movement had Angela Davis been involved in when she went into hiding from the police?

5. Describe Angela Davis's high school.

6. With whom did Angela Davis hide while she was running from the police?

7. What was Angela Davis's relationship with America while she was in Europe?

8. Describe Angela Davis's experience at the Helsinki festival.

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

10. What was it like for Angela Davis during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Research the rest of Davis's life after the period covered in the memoir. How was she consistent with her early self? Was she ever inconsistent with herself? How did she change and grow over the course of her life? How did she remain the same?

Essay Topic 2

What is the nature of Angela Davis's book? Is it a memoir, or simply topical history that is really only relevant as long as there as interest in her trial? How does the book work as propaganda for the Civil Rights movement? Is it a morality tale? A coming of age tale? What else is it besides a memoir?

Essay Topic 3

What single person, or political figure, or formative experience had the biggest influence on Angela Davis's career and her political work?

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