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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 Angela Davis moved to when her legal team requested a change of venue?

2. What caused Angela Davis to be moved to a new cell?

3. Where was Gregory Clark when he was shot?

4. Whose lectures did Angela Davis stop in London for when she was traveling back to the U.S.?

5. What was Angela Davis's relationship with Rap Brown?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did Angela Davis's lawyers arrange to get Davis out of solitary confinement?

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

8. What act of terrorism seemed to involve Angela Davis during her trial?

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

10. What were Angela Davis's feelings about the Black Power group and other black movements in England?

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

After the Eighth World Festival for Youth and Students, Angela Davis had a vision of universal personhood: she saw the differences between people as smaller than their similarities. How much did her career and experiences bear out her vision of unity that transcended race, class, gender, or other distinguishing characteristics?

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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