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

2. What subject was Angela Davis tending toward during her term abroad?

3. What was the consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis at Angela Davis's college?

4. What was Angela Davis doing when the book begins?

5. What was Angela Davis's mother doing in New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Angela Davis's travels in Germany.

2. Where was Angela Davis at the beginning of the book, and where was she going?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did Angela Davis study in high school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What were the primary reasons for resistance to the Civil Rights movement in America? Who were the primary parties resisting the integration of blacks into equal treatment in society? What were these people's fears, and what did they stand to lose by integration?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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