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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. How did Angela Davis travel to high school?
2. How old was Angela Davis when the Civil Rights movement began?
3. Whom did Angela Davis travel to Helsinki with?
4. What was the atmosphere in the Davis home after they moved when Angela Davis was four?
5. Who was with Angela Davis when the book begins?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Angela Davis's reaction to Malcolm X?
2. With whom did Angela Davis hide while she was running from the police?
3. Describe Angela Davis's arrival at college.
4. Describe Angela Davis's trip from New York to Helsinki.
5. Where was Angela Davis kept when she was in prison, and when was she moved?
6. What was Angela Davis's relationship with America while she was in Europe?
7. What was Angela Davis's family's status when she was a child, and her did her status affect her?
8. What was Angela Davis's first experience of life outside the South, free of racism?
9. How did Angela Davis communicate with her family during her flight from the police and then her imprisonment?
10. What movement had Angela Davis been involved in when she went into hiding from the police?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Was it useful for Angela Davis to see society itself as the culprit in the death of Gregory Clark or others? Or did it diffuse her political activities?
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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