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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 do her graduate work?

2. What conclusion did Angela Davis draw after her trip to Helsinki?

3. Where did Angela Davis want to go during her last year of high school?

4. Where did Angela Davis meet her friends in Europe before going to Helsinki?

5. What was Angela Davis's perspective on the Birmingham church bombing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Angela Davis study in high school?

2. Describe Angela Davis's trip from New York to Helsinki.

3. Where was Angela Davis kept when she was in prison, and when was she moved?

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

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

6. What conclusions did Angela Davis reach as a result of her time in Helsinki?

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

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

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

10. What was Angela Davis's first experience of life outside the South, free of racism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Black discourse and use of dialect and non-standard English has established a wide range of possible voices for black thinkers, activists, and artists. Where did Angela Davis position herself in her autobiography? What audience did she want to reach by taking the stance she did?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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