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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 was attractive about Fisk University?

2. How was the raid on Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment related to the deaths that took place immediately before the moment the book opened?

3. What organization did Angela Davis join in high school?

4. Where did Angela Davis study for her junior year?

5. Where was Angela Davis when Kennedy was assassinated?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Angela Davis's arrival at college.

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

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

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

5. What did Angela Davis attribute her current situation to?

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

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

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

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

10. Describe Angela Davis's high school.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where was Angela Davis most effective as a political leader and activist? Where were her actions or decisions least effective?

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

Did Angela Davis's education and her "not-so-poor" upbringing make her an exception among black women, separating her from the majority of blacks, or did her background make her an exemplar for blacks and a leader who represented the others?

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