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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 was one type of stew that Shakur had in the prison in Chapter 3?

2. In Chapter 5, how many indictments were outstanding against Shakur for alleged bank robberies?

3. In Chapter 7, what book did the defense team want to know if potential jurors had read?

4. In Chapter 8, what streets did Shakur say were richer than where she lived with her aunt?

5. In Chapter 3, how often was Shakur allowed a clean uniform?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Shakur move with her mother and sister in Chapter 6, and what did it look like?

2. What did Shakur like to do in Evelyn's neighborhood in Chapter 8?

3. In Chapter 1, how did a nurse come to Shakur's aid?

4. What issues did Shakur have during her pregnancy in Chapter 9?

5. How did people live on 84th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus in Chapter 8?

6. What did Shakur feel and hear at the beginning of Chapter 1?

7. In Chapter 10, what job did Evelyn help Shakur get and how did Shakur describe the job?

8. Why did Shakur say that marriage between a Black man and woman was difficult?

9. What did Shakur's cell look like in Chapter 3?

10. What was Evelyn's apartment like in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

During one trial, a bank manager testified that Shakur was not the woman who robbed his bank. How and why were various Black revolutionaries, like Shakur framed for crimes they did not commit?

Essay Topic 2

Shakur lived in the South with her grandparents when her mother was getting her college degree. There were places that Blacks were not allowed to go. What types of segregation did Shakur see when she lived in the South? How did that segregation affect her and her family?

Essay Topic 3

Shakur enthusiastically became involved with the New York Black Panther Party. Why did she become disillusioned with the Party and decide to leave?

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