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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Describe Angela Davis's freshman year.
(a) She was politically active.
(b) She worked hard in classes.
(c) She was socially active.
(d) She didn't study much.

2. What was Angela Davis's feeling about Cuba when she was in Helsinki?
(a) She was impressed with the Cuban delegates.
(b) She was critical of the direction the Cuban revolution was taking.
(c) She was appalled by conditions in Cuba.
(d) She was invited to travel there herself.

3. What was Angela Davis's personality like in school?
(a) She was aloof and solitary.
(b) She always stepped into confrontations.
(c) She was bookish and shy.
(d) She was dabbling in different occupational tracks.

4. Where was Angela Davis when the book began?
(a) Main County Courthouse.
(b) West Adams.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Echo Park.

5. Who did Angela Davis live with during high school?
(a) Margaret Burnham.
(b) Her parents.
(c) James Jackson's family.
(d) Reverend and Mrs. Melish.

6. Who called Angela Davis after she was arrested?
(a) Gerald Lefcourt.
(b) Jonathan Jackson
(c) Robert Lohman.
(d) David Poindexter.

7. Where did Angela Davis's family move when Angela Davis was four?
(a) Paris.
(b) Center Street.
(c) New York City.
(d) Chicago.

8. How did Angela Davis feel attending high school?
(a) Like an outsider.
(b) Like a despised minority.
(c) Like a valued contributor to the school's culture.
(d) Like one of the gang.

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

10. Why didn't Angela Davis leave the country?
(a) She wanted to be close to her family.
(b) She wanted to be close to the movement.
(c) She did not have a passport.
(d) She was afraid of being caught.

11. Where did Angela Davis study for her junior year?
(a) Helsinki.
(b) Spain.
(c) England.
(d) France.

12. Who did Angela Davis feel closest to in college?
(a) Foreign students.
(b) Black students.
(c) Her teachers.
(d) White students.

13. How was the raid on Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment related to the deaths that took place immediately before the moment the book opened?
(a) The propaganda booklets they had printed had been the trigger for the shootout with the police.
(b) Angela Davis was trying to free Franklin and Kendra Alexander from the courthouse when the people were killed.
(c) The guns confiscated at the raid were used at the courthouse.
(d) The drugs confiscated were found in the police station.

14. How many other freshmen were Black in Angela Davis's college class?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Three.
(c) Thirty-four.
(d) Two.

15. Where had the deaths of McClain and Christmas and the other person taken place?
(a) Echo Park.
(b) University of California.
(c) Marin County Courthouse.
(d) San Quentin Prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Angela Davis choose the major she chose?

2. What kind of scholarship did Angela Davis get for college?

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

4. Where did Angela Davis go to college?

5. When did Angela Davis and her companion plan to leave their location?

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