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

2. What did the People's Tribunal Committee do after the murder of Gregory Clark?
(a) Arrange round-the-clock demonstrations in front of the police station.
(b) Assassinate the policeman who had killed him.
(c) Try the policeman in a mock trial.
(d) Break into the police station to avenge the murder.

3. What was Angela Davis's perspective on the Birmingham church bombing?
(a) That the whole of society was guilty of murdering the girls.
(b) That the perpetrators must be found and made an example of.
(c) That the best response to violence was compassion.
(d) That the race conflict was really a class conflict.

4. What was Angela Davis's reason for traveling to Helsinki?
(a) The World Festival for Youth and Students.
(b) A conference on the Algerian conflict.
(c) To explore.
(d) To hear Malcolm X speak.

5. What was the level of involvement in the Civil Rights movement in Angela Davis's high school?
(a) There were non-violent protests.
(b) The students organized racial cooperation.
(c) There were race riots and sit-ins.
(d) There was very little interest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Angela Davis doing when the book begins?

2. What did Angela Davis base her defense on, in part?

3. Who were James McClain and William Christmas?

4. Why did Howard Moore leave the pre-trial motions to other lawyers?

5. What news did Bettina Aptheker bring Angela Davis?

(see the answer key)

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