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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 say were the two levels of prison existence?

2. What was Angela Davis's personality like in school?

3. How old was Angela Davis when the Civil Rights movement began?

4. What was the level of involvement in the Civil Rights movement in Angela Davis's high school?

5. Where was Angela Davis's high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the conditions of Angela Davis's arrest.

2. Why had Angela Davis lost her teaching position at the University of California?

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

4. Describe Angela Davis's arrival at college.

5. Describe Angela Davis's high school.

6. What did Angela Davis study in high school?

7. Where was Angela Davis at the beginning of the book, and where was she going?

8. Describe Angela Davis's trip from New York to Helsinki.

9. What conclusions did Angela Davis reach as a result of her time in Helsinki?

10. Describe Angela Davis's relationship with her fellow prisoners.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Angela Davis and others use the media and courtroom trials as political theatre? How were these events theatrical? Who was the audience? What performance did they put on? What was the result of their political theatre?

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 was the role of education in Davis's political philosophy, and how did her approach to education change over the course of her career? If it did not change much, what original influences did it remain true to?

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