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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 part of her trial was Angela Davis involved in?

2. How did the judges handle Angela Davis's case?

3. Who was Gus Hall?

4. Where was Angela Davis supposed to meet the people making the demands that disturbed the trial?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the prosecution build its case against Angela Davis on?

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

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

5. Describe the conditions when Angela Davis arrived in the Santa Clara jail.

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

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

8. What was Angela Davis's relationship with the Communist Party?

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

10. What was Franklin Alexander's position on black liberation?

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

Why had Angela Davis studied in Europe, and why did she ultimately return to the U.S.? What factors influenced her decision to keep herself apart from political events in the U.S., and what made it possible for her to come home and participate in them?

Essay Topic 3

Was Angela Davis's life evidence of the dictum her teachers told her in school, that if you work hard you will get ahead?

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