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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 was Angela Davis feeling when she was waiting to leave her location at the beginning of the book?

2. What was the purpose of the rally Herbert Marcuse held?

3. Describe Angela Davis's return to the U.S. from Helsinki.

4. Who did Angela Davis feel closest to in college?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Angela Davis's experience of the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement?

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

5. Describe Angela Davis's arrival at college.

6. Describe Angela Davis's high school.

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

8. What was Angela Davis's relationship with America while she was in Europe?

9. Describe Angela Davis's travels in Germany.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write a review of the book. What are the book's strengths and weaknesses? What were its goals and methods? Did it achieve them?

Essay Topic 3

Where was Angela Davis most free and comfortable in society? Was it in Europe, where she was free from American race tensions? Or America, where she was fighting the fight for her people?

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