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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Angela Davis's mother doing in New York?
(a) Fleeing from McCarthyist persecution in the South.
(b) Working for the Communist Party.
(c) Organizing workers.
(d) Working on her masters degree.

2. What organization did Angela Davis join in high school?
(a) Communist Party.
(b) Students for a Democratic Society.
(c) Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee.
(d) Advance.

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

4. Why was Angela Davis's neighborhood called Dynamite Hill?
(a) Because it was near a blasting zone.
(b) Because black families' houses kept being dynamited there.
(c) Because it was a center of race riots.
(d) Because it had 'dynamite' views.

5. Why didn't Angela Davis join the communist movement at her college?
(a) She was not sympathetic with the communists.
(b) She did not have time with her activities.
(c) She felt alienated.
(d) She would have lost her funding.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why didn't Angela Davis leave the country?

3. What was attractive about Fisk University?

4. What was Angela Davis's family's class status?

5. Why was Angela Davis nervous about leaving her location?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Angela Davis's first experience of life outside the South, free of racism?

2. What was Angela Davis's family's status when she was a child, and her did her status affect her?

3. Describe the conditions of Angela Davis's arrest.

4. What was it like for Angela Davis during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

5. What movement had Angela Davis been involved in when she went into hiding from the police?

6. What was Angela Davis's reaction to Malcolm X?

7. Describe Angela Davis's childhood experience of racism.

8. With whom did Angela Davis hide while she was running from the police?

9. What did Angela Davis attribute her current situation to?

10. Why was Angela Davis in hiding at the beginning of the book?

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