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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the church bombing in Birmingham touch Angela Davis?
(a) She was friends with the girls who died.
(b) She knew the minister at the church that was bombed.
(c) She knew the people who bombed the church.
(d) She didn't have any connection to it. She just heard about it in the paper.

2. What is Angela Davis learning when she made her trip at the beginning of the book?
(a) How to liberate political prisoners.
(b) How not to be detected by cops.
(c) How to smuggle guns.
(d) How to organize a revolt.

3. What was Franklin Alexander's view of racism?
(a) That racism is against whites' interest a well.
(b) That racism would persist as long as the history of slavery had not been atoned for.
(c) That racism is fundamentally cultural, not economic.
(d) That racism makes a profit for whites.

4. What did Angela Davis say were the two levels of prison existence?
(a) The police culture and the guard culture.
(b) The prisoners with appeals and the life prisoners.
(c) The political prisoner culture and the other prisoners' culture.
(d) The official rules and the prisoner culture.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Angela Davis go to see in Chicago?

2. Where was Gregory Clark when he was shot?

3. What did Angela Davis see on the news in Detroit?

4. Describe Angela Davis's return to the U.S. from Helsinki.

5. What was Angela Davis's perspective on the Birmingham church bombing?

(see the answer key)

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