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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. Why didn't Angela Davis join the communist movement at her college?

2. What did the police confiscate at Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment?

3. Where did Angela Davis go when she left Birmingham?

4. What did Angela Davis's teachers tell her and her classmates?

5. Where was Angela Davis's high school?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What did Angela Davis study in high school?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

What is the nature of Angela Davis's book? Is it a memoir, or simply topical history that is really only relevant as long as there as interest in her trial? How does the book work as propaganda for the Civil Rights movement? Is it a morality tale? A coming of age tale? What else is it besides a memoir?

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