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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why was there a large crowd outside the courthouse on the second day of Angela Davis's trial?
(a) Someone had come with a gun to the trial.
(b) One of the jurors had been threatened.
(c) Someone had threatened the judge's life.
(d) There had been an escape attempt at the men's prison.

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

4. Why did Angela Davis's legal team request a change of venue?
(a) Because the judge had promised a conviction.
(b) Because the judge had made racist comments.
(c) Because the judge was a friend of the murdered judge's.
(d) Because the judge had condemned Angela Davis' actions.

5. How does Angela Davis explain the press's coverage of herself and her co-defendant?
(a) She thinks they are intent on building up their radicalism.
(b) She things they want to destroy any solidarity between them.
(c) She thinks they are trying to reduce them to hysterical women.
(d) She things they are trying to paint them as lunatics.

6. Who was Gus Hall?
(a) The new judge for Angela Davis's case.
(b) A fellow comrade who had been imprisoned.
(c) A new leader of the LA Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee.
(d) A fundraiser who helped post Angela Davis' bond.

7. 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) Men in the SNCC form their own organization.
(c) Women members withdraw from the SNCC under pressure from the men.
(d) Men in the Black Panthers harden their sexist rhetoric.

8. What did Franklin Alexander do after Gregory Clark's murder?
(a) Convince the protesters to disperse.
(b) Incite the crowds to call for blood.
(c) Organize the protests calling for a trial of the policeman.
(d) Quiet the crowds calling for blood.

9. What was the jury's verdict on the first charge against Angela Davis?
(a) Guilty.
(b) Guilty with prejudice.
(c) The count was thrown out.
(d) Not guilty.

10. Why was the door suddenly guarded by police when Angela Davis was having lunch while the jury was out?
(a) The judge had freed Angela Davis.
(b) A plane had been hijacked in Seattle.
(c) A juror had been attacked.
(d) Someone had tried to escape from the prison.

11. What did Angela Davis learn while she was waiting to be transferred to the courthouse?
(a) The California Supreme Court had abolished the death penalty.
(b) The California Supreme Court had upheld the death penalty.
(c) The California Supreme Court had refused her appeal.
(d) The California Supreme Court had agreed to hear her case.

12. What was Franklin Alexander's response when the verdict was read?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Sobbing.
(c) Jubilation.
(d) Laughter.

13. What criticism did the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee national representative make of Angela Davis's leadership of the LA chapter?
(a) He said they should work on educating people with basic subjects, not advanced theory.
(b) He said they should be providing food and necessaries to poor people.
(c) He said they should provide job skills, not Marxist indoctrination.
(d) He said they should be teaching people the history of black people's conflict with whites.

14. What was Angela Davis supposed to have with her, according to the demands that interrupted her trial?
(a) Other political prisoners.
(b) $102,500 and the Soledad Brothers.
(c) $500,000 and five parachutes.
(d) Printing materials and a papers from her legal defense.

15. What was the jury's verdict on the third charge against Angela Davis?
(a) Not guilty.
(b) The count was thrown out.
(c) Guilty.
(d) Guilty with prejudice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ruchell Magee want to be tried?

2. What happened when security measures were eased on the second day of Angela Davis's trial?

3. Whom did the press compare Angela Davis to in coverage of the trial?

4. Who did Angela Davis get to handle pre-trial motions?

5. What did Angela Davis suspect about newspaper accounts of the second day of her trial?

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