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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. Whom did Angela Davis go to see in Chicago?
2. How did some students react to the Cuban Missile Crisis?
3. What conclusion did Angela Davis draw after her trip to Helsinki?
4. How was Angela Davis involved in the police raid on Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment?
5. Where was Angela Davis's high school?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where was Angela Davis at the beginning of the book, and where was she going?
2. What was Angela Davis's family's status when she was a child, and her did her status affect her?
3. What movement had Angela Davis been involved in when she went into hiding from the police?
4. Describe Angela Davis's relationship with her fellow prisoners.
5. Why was Angela Davis in hiding at the beginning of the book?
6. What did Angela Davis study in high school?
7. Describe Angela Davis's trip to New York for school.
8. What was Angela Davis's experience of the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement?
9. Describe Angela Davis's arrival at college.
10. What did Angela Davis's teachers tell her about hard work, and what was Davis's response to them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What single person, or political figure, or formative experience had the biggest influence on Angela Davis's career and her political work?
Essay Topic 2
Was Angela Davis's life evidence of the dictum her teachers told her in school, that if you work hard you will get ahead?
Essay Topic 3
After the Eighth World Festival for Youth and Students, Angela Davis had a vision of universal personhood: she saw the differences between people as smaller than their similarities. How much did her career and experiences bear out her vision of unity that transcended race, class, gender, or other distinguishing characteristics?
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