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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. In Chapter 18, what was the name of one of the entertainers who performed at fundraising events for Shakur?

2. In Chapter 19 when the MSU was closed down, where did Shakur get a job in the prison?

3. In a poem Shakur wrote for her daughter in Chapter 20, what did Shakur not want frost to kill?

4. In Chapter 18, when was Shakur acquitted of the Queens bank robbery case?

5. In Chapter 16, when were two police machine-gunned on Riverside Drive?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Rema Olugbala die in Chapter 11?

2. What did Shakur think it meant to go underground at first?

3. In Chapter 15, what was the first task that Shakur performed at the Black Panther Party office?

4. How did Shakur learn about liberation theology and why did she study it?

5. In Chapter 11, why did the FBI want a photograph of Shakur wearing a wig and dress similar to a woman photographed by bank cameras during a robbery?

6. In Chapter 14, what two pieces of evidence helped Shakur gain an acquittal for the bank robbery trial?

7. How did the FBI try to force Shakur to get her photograph taken in similar clothing to the bank robber in Chapter 11?

8. What did the state do after the hearing officer ruled in Chapter 18 that Shakur's conditions of imprisonment were inhuman?

9. In Chapter 17, why did Shakur believe that the various organizations working for Black freedom should not consolidate?

10. What news did Shakur read about herself in Chapter 16?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Both Shakur and her mother had broken marriages. What factors put undue pressure on married Blacks, and how did those pressures cause marriages to fail?

Essay Topic 2

Shakur believed that socialism was a good economic system, but she said that she would not be a socialist. Why if Shakur believed that socialism was a good economic system, would Shakur not be a socialist?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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