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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 Angela Davis's reason for traveling to Helsinki?

2. What was the purpose of the rally Herbert Marcuse held?

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

4. Where was Angela Davis when Kennedy was assassinated?

5. Where had the deaths of McClain and Christmas and the other person taken place?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Angela Davis's arrival at college.

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

5. What was Angela Davis's experience in Paris?

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

7. Describe Angela Davis's high school.

8. What was Angela Davis's experience of the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Angela Davis's family with the people with whom she fought in the Civil Rights movement. How are the families different? How are they similar? How did Angela Davis treat the two "families" differently?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

How were black American Communists different from other Communists around the world? How were their goals similar? How were they opposed? How was the Civil Rights movement irreconcilable with the Communists' goals?

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