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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Rocks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Angela Davis's teachers tell her and her classmates?
(a) Education is the key to success.
(b) Work hard and you will get ahead.
(c) Class warfare was inevitable.
(d) Learning effectively makes your skin whiter.

2. What was the atmosphere in the Davis home after they moved when Angela Davis was four?
(a) Racial tolerance.
(b) Constant vigilance.
(c) Comfort and prosperity.
(d) Consistent harassment.

3. What did Angela Davis learn about Birmingham when she was in New York?
(a) How segregated Birmingham was.
(b) That she could pass a white.
(c) That it is impossible to live without racial tension, even in affluence.
(d) That blacks in New York were as poor as in Birmingham.

4. When did the situation that brought Angela Davis to the circumstances that open the book begin?
(a) Two days earlier.
(b) Three months earlier.
(c) Six months earlier.
(d) Two years earlier.

5. Why had Angela Davis lost her teaching position?
(a) Because of her association with Franklin and Kendra Alexander.
(b) Because she was wanted by the police.
(c) Because of her Communist Party membership.
(d) Because of her radical opinions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Angela Davis learning when she made her trip at the beginning of the book?

2. Where had the deaths of McClain and Christmas and the other person taken place?

3. How was Angela Davis involved in the police raid on Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment?

4. How old was Angela Davis when the Civil Rights movement began?

5. What was Angela Davis's mother's occupation?

(see the answer key)

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