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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 kind of lessons did Angela Davis take as a child?

2. Describe Angela Davis's freshman year.

3. What was the atmosphere in the Davis home after they moved when Angela Davis was four?

4. Why was Angela Davis nervous about leaving her location?

5. What kind of scholarship did Angela Davis get for college?

Short Essay Questions

1. With whom did Angela Davis hide while she was running from the police?

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

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

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

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

6. What was Angela Davis's experience of the Birmingham church bombings?

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

8. Describe Angela Davis's childhood experience of racism.

9. Describe the decision that led Angela Davis out of Birmingham.

10. What was Angela Davis's family's status when she was a child, and her did her status affect her?

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

In what ways was the Civil Rights movement an American movement, in keeping with the ideals of the founders who fought for freedom? In what ways was their situation unique in American history? What precedents did it have to fight against? What precedents did it establish?

Essay Topic 3

Was Angela Davis's life evidence of the dictum her teachers told her in school, that if you work hard you will get ahead?

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