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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What status did Angela Davis obtain in order to get out of solitary confinement?
(a) Mental patient.
(b) Member of her own legal team.
(c) Legal assistant.
(d) Legal investigator.

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

3. What did Angela Davis decide at a young age?
(a) That she would run away from America and its race tensions.
(b) That she would stay in America and fight for race equality.
(c) That she would become a doctor, and provide for her family without getting into the race problems.
(d) That she would show white people that blacks were just as capable as them.

4. How old was Angela Davis when the Civil Rights movement began?
(a) Entering high school.
(b) Entering college.
(c) Entering kindergarten.
(d) Entering grade school.

5. On what basis did Angela Davis's lawyers win this concession at her arraignment hearing?
(a) The witnesses had obviously lied in their testimony.
(b) The trial would not be fair in that location.
(c) The legal team was just being formed.
(d) The charges were fabricated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did the press compare Angela Davis to in coverage of the trial?

2. What were Angela Davis's jail conditions like after she was first moved to her new jail?

3. What was the consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis at Angela Davis's college?

4. Where did Angela Davis go when she left Birmingham?

5. Why did Angela Davis's legal team request a change of venue?

(see the answer key)

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