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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the relationship between the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee and the Communist Party?
(a) The SNCC did not want to be associated with Communists.
(b) They worked together on political project, but the Communists worked alone in economic cases.
(c) They competed for members, but forced their members to choose between parties.
(d) The two parties worked together.

2. Where was Angela Davis supposed to meet the people making the demands that disturbed the trial?
(a) In Chicago.
(b) In front of the courthouse.
(c) In New York.
(d) At the airport in San Francisco.

3. What was the third charge against Angela Davis?
(a) Conspiracy.
(b) Murder.
(c) Kidnapping.
(d) Harboring criminals.

4. What did Ruchell Magee do when his petition for removal was denied?
(a) Worked with Angela Davis.
(b) Separated his case from Angela Davis'.
(c) Prepared a case for federal court.
(d) Pursued it.

5. What did Angela Davis suspect about newspaper accounts of the second day of her trial?
(a) That she had arranged for the juror to be attacked.
(b) That she was guilty.
(c) That they implied that she was involved with the adjournment.
(d) That she had threatened the judge's life.

6. Who came to see Angela Davis shortly after she was booked into jail?
(a) Carolyn Craven.
(b) Charlene Mitchell.
(c) Tamu Ushindi.
(d) Franklin Alexander.

7. What emergency caused Angela Davis's lawyer to have to leave the prison suddenly?
(a) Angela Davis was to be transferred to another prison.
(b) Ruchell Magee was murdered.
(c) George was murdered.
(d) The judge was threatened.

8. Why did Angela Davis feel that blacks needed to avoid a conflict with police in Los Angeles?
(a) Because LA county had permissive laws regarding police brutality.
(b) Because the LA judges were traditionally biased against political protesters.
(c) Because LA police had a reputation for criminal brutality.
(d) Because LA police were among the best equipped with riot gear.

9. What ultimately came of the demands that interrupted the trial?
(a) Angela Davis was freed.
(b) Angela Davis flew to Oakland.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The police apprehended the person who made the demands.

10. What kind of response to racism did Angela Davis believe would go nowhere?
(a) Peaceful responses.
(b) Calculated, articulate responses.
(c) Emotional or angry responses.
(d) Diplomatic responses.

11. Where was Angela Davis booked into jail in California?
(a) San Diego.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Marin County.
(d) Los Angeles.

12. What happens when Angela Davis and two other women take over the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee LA chapter?
(a) Men in the Black Liberation Movement feel undermined.
(b) Women members withdraw from the SNCC under pressure from the men.
(c) Men in the Black Panthers harden their sexist rhetoric.
(d) Men in the SNCC form their own organization.

13. What was the purpose of the two West Coast meetings of the Black Liberation Movement?
(a) To organize for future regional unity.
(b) To demand Huey Newton's freedom.
(c) To demand a trial for the murder of Gregory Clark.
(d) To oppose the Vietnam War.

14. What state was the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee in when Martin Luther King was shot?
(a) Confidently organizing protests nation-wide.
(b) Underfunded, with bad morale.
(c) Riven with internal conflicts.
(d) Successful in bringing splinter groups together.

15. What demands were conveyed to Angela Davis and the court?
(a) Journalists demanded to be let into the courtroom.
(b) The juror's attacker wanted Angela Davis to be freed.
(c) The hijackers wanted her to meet their plane.
(d) The prosecution demanded a conviction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Angela Davis say about Jonathan Jackson in her opening statement?

2. Who was Gus Hall?

3. How did the LA police try to incite conflict after Martin Luther King's assassination?

4. How long had Angela Davis been imprisoned when she was finally released on bail?

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

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