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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 demands were conveyed to Angela Davis and the court?

2. Why was Angela Davis's legal team dissolved?

3. What did Angela Davis learn while she was waiting to be transferred to the courthouse?

4. Why did Angela Davis feel that blacks needed to avoid a conflict with police in Los Angeles?

5. What did Angela Davis say about Jonathan Jackson in her opening statement?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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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