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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. Who were James McClain and William Christmas?
(a) They were deputies.
(b) They were innocent bystanders.
(c) They were wardens.
(d) They were prisoners.

2. Why was Angela Davis arrested in Berlin?
(a) She had contraband from the East.
(b) She had become a member of the Communist Party in East Berlin.
(c) She had lived with agitators in the East.
(d) She had not gotten clearance when she moved.

3. Where was Angela Davis's high school?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) South Side Chicago.
(c) Greenwich Village.
(d) Birmingham, AL.

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

5. Where had Angela Davis been teaching before the time the book began?
(a) San Francisco State College.
(b) University of California.
(c) University of Chicago.
(d) Oxford University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Angela Davis go when she left Birmingham?

2. How did some students react to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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

4. How many other freshmen were Black in Angela Davis's college class?

5. How did Angela Davis feel attending high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Angela Davis's travels in Germany.

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

3. What was Angela Davis's personality like when she was young?

4. What did Angela Davis's teachers tell her about hard work, and what was Davis's response to them?

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

6. What was Angela Davis's relationship with America while she was in Europe?

7. What conclusions did Angela Davis reach as a result of her time in Helsinki?

8. Describe the decision that led Angela Davis out of Birmingham.

9. What was Angela Davis's experience of the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement?

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

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