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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 go when she left Birmingham?

2. Where did Angela Davis steal from as a child?

3. How did Angela Davis and her friends show support for the organization her parents belonged to?

4. What was Angela Davis's reason for traveling to Helsinki?

5. What did Angela Davis major in after her trip to Helsinki?

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. Describe Angela Davis's travels in Germany.

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

5. Describe Angela Davis's arrival at college.

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

7. What did Angela Davis's teachers tell her about hard work, and what was Davis's response to them?

8. What was Angela Davis's reaction to Malcolm X?

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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