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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Flames.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What conclusion did Angela Davis draw after her trip to Helsinki?
(a) Social solidarity can be as oppressive as racism.
(b) Each nation or group has to fight its own battles.
(c) Solidarity is more effective in bringing about change than individuality.
(d) People are divided by superficial barriers.

2. Why didn't Angela Davis feel she could identify with Malcolm X?
(a) Because she was not Muslim.
(b) Because she was not poor.
(c) Because she was not militant.
(d) Because she was not male.

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

4. What did Angela Davis use her initiation into the Black Panthers to do?
(a) Think about whether to join the Communist Party.
(b) Think about how to found a political collective.
(c) Think about how to oppose the Vietnam War.
(d) Think about how to unify black movement organizations.

5. In what way did Angela Davis identify with the Black Power movement?
(a) Her hair style.
(b) Her philosophy.
(c) Her political views.
(d) Her style of clothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Angela Davis arrested after a demonstration against the Vietnam War?

2. What did Angela Davis do with the money she stole as a child?

3. Where was Angela Davis arrested?

4. How was Angela Davis received by the black movement in San Diego when she arrived there?

5. When did the situation that brought Angela Davis to the circumstances that open the book begin?

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