View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Walls.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What excited Angela Davis during her freshman year at college?
(a) James Baldwin's lectures.
(b) Herbert Marcuse's classes.
(c) The prospect of traveling to Europe.
(d) Demonstrations in France.

2. What concession did Angela Davis's lawyers win at the arraignment hearing?
(a) A dismissal.
(b) A relocation.
(c) An adjournment.
(d) A continuance.

3. Why was Angela Davis's neighborhood called Dynamite Hill?
(a) Because it was a center of race riots.
(b) Because it was near a blasting zone.
(c) Because it had 'dynamite' views.
(d) Because black families' houses kept being dynamited there.

4. Why did Howard Moore leave the pre-trial motions to other lawyers?
(a) He was committed to a case in Atlanta.
(b) He had been de-barred in California.
(c) The defense team could not raise enough money for his fee.
(d) He had to make concessions to the local legal team.

5. Where did Angela Davis steal from as a child?
(a) Her father's bag of coins.
(b) The white people's grocery store.
(c) The corner store.
(d) Her teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Angela Davis want to go during her last year of high school?

2. What news did Bettina Aptheker bring Angela Davis?

3. How many other freshmen were Black in Angela Davis's college class?

4. What did Angela Davis's teachers tell her and her classmates?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 368 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample