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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 did Angela Davis use her initiation into the Black Panthers to do?

2. What was the jury's verdict on the second charge against Angela Davis?

3. Who did Angela Davis spend her time in London with?

4. On what basis did Angela Davis's lawyers win this concession at her arraignment hearing?

5. What was Franklin Alexander's view of racism?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whose hands was Angela Davis holding when the verdicts were read?

2. What caused the change in venue for Angela Davis's trial?

3. Describe the lunch Angela Davis had while the jury was deliberating.

4. What political activity did Angela Davis get involved in almost as soon as she returned to the U.S.?

5. What was Angela Davis's relationship with her co-defendant, Ruchell Magee?

6. What happened that allowed Angela Davis to be set free on bail?

7. Where did Angela Davis go after she was free on bail?

8. What did Angela Davis say in her opening statement to the jury?

9. What was the mood among Davis's legal team when the verdicts were read?

10. What event made Angela Davis and her legal team consider filing for a relocation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How were black American Communists different from other Communists around the world? How were their goals similar? How were they opposed? How was the Civil Rights movement irreconcilable with the Communists' goals?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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