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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose family did Angela Davis spend time with in New York as a child?
(a) Herbert Marcuse.
(b) James Jackson.
(c) Margaret Burnham.
(d) Reverend and Mrs. Melish.

2. Where did Angela Davis steal from as a child?
(a) The white people's grocery store.
(b) Her father's bag of coins.
(c) The corner store.
(d) Her teachers.

3. Where did Angela Davis go when she left Birmingham?
(a) American Friends high school.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Fisk University.
(d) Parker High School.

4. How did some students react to the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(a) They moved to Canada.
(b) They went about their classes.
(c) They published threats against the Russians.
(d) They marched on Washington.

5. 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 guns confiscated at the raid were used at the courthouse.
(b) Angela Davis was trying to free Franklin and Kendra Alexander from the courthouse when the people were killed.
(c) The drugs confiscated were found in the police station.
(d) The propaganda booklets they had printed had been the trigger for the shootout with the police.

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

7. Where did Angela Davis do her graduate work?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Munich.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) Paris.

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

9. When does the book begin?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1970.

10. Who owned and operated Angela Davis's high school?
(a) The teachers.
(b) The parents.
(c) The state of New York.
(d) The state of Alabama.

11. What was Angela Davis feeling when she was waiting to leave her location at the beginning of the book?
(a) Vulnerable.
(b) Confident.
(c) Triumphant.
(d) Remorseful.

12. Where did Angela Davis go to college?
(a) Brandeis University.
(b) Fisk University.
(c) University of California.
(d) State University of New York.

13. Where did Angela Davis meet her friends in Europe before going to Helsinki?
(a) St. Petersburg.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Glasgow.

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

15. What kind of scholarship did Angela Davis get for college?
(a) Full scholarship.
(b) No scholarship.
(c) Work-study funding.
(d) Partial scholarship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Angela Davis trying on when the book begins?

2. What was Angela Davis's personality like in school?

3. What philosophy did Angela Davis write her dissertation on?

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

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

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