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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 were Angela Davis's jail conditions like after she was first moved to her new jail?

2. Who came to see Angela Davis shortly after she was booked into jail?

3. Who did Angela Davis get to handle pre-trial motions?

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

5. What kind of response to racism did Angela Davis believe would go nowhere?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Angela Davis's legal defense team.

5. What was Angela Davis's philosophy on handling her defense in court?

6. What was Angela Davis's philosophy for winning race equality?

7. How did Angela Davis technically violate the terms of her bail bond?

8. What were the three charges against Angela Davis, and what were the three verdicts?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

What single person, or political figure, or formative experience had the biggest influence on Angela Davis's career and her political work?

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