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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. Where did Angela Davis want to go during her last year of high school?

2. Who had been killed two days prior to the moment when the book begins?

3. Where did Angela Davis go when she left Birmingham?

4. What did Angela Davis see on the news in Detroit?

5. Why was Angela Davis arrested in Berlin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Angela Davis study in high school?

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

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

4. Why was Angela Davis in hiding at the beginning of the book?

5. What was Angela Davis's first experience of life outside the South, free of racism?

6. What was Angela Davis's personality like when she was young?

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

8. Describe the decision that led Angela Davis out of Birmingham.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How have forms of political activism changed since the "war on terror" started after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks in 2001? Would the Civil Rights movement have taken place differently today?

Essay Topic 2

Why had Angela Davis studied in Europe, and why did she ultimately return to the U.S.? What factors influenced her decision to keep herself apart from political events in the U.S., and what made it possible for her to come home and participate in them?

Essay Topic 3

Angela Davis and her supporters helped each other not only when they were brought up on false charges, but they also broke the law in order to shelter each other and hide each other from the police. Is this an ethical stance to take--to defy the law--or were there other avenues that might have been effective? Were Davis and her supporters obligated to break the law or follow it?

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