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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 was Gregory Clark when he was shot?

2. What criterion did Angela Davis insist her lawyers agree on?

3. Who approached Angela Davis as soon as she entered the conference in London?

4. What did Angela Davis learn on March 27 when the jury recessed for lunch?

5. What was Angela Davis supposed to be wearing when she met the people making the demands that disturbed the trial?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Gregory Clark, and what influence did he have on Angela Davis's life?

3. What did the judge read from at the close of Angela Davis's trial?

4. What role did Angela Davis play in the Black Panthers Political Party?

5. What was the relationship between different black liberation organizations when Angela Davis returned to California?

6. What strategy did the police take in opposing the black liberation movements?

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

8. Describe the genesis of the book Angela Davis wrote from prison.

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

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

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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