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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 did Angela Davis conclude from the LA police's methods in inciting conflict after the assassination of Martin Luther King?
(a) She thought that the government feared the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee's educational methods more than violence.
(b) She saw the government sowing discord among the protesters with undercover cops spreading misinformation.
(c) She realized that the government was more afraid of blacks' collective bargaining power than their civil rights.
(d) She thought that the government was going straight for the leaders, to incite confusion and tension in the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee.

2. 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 thinks they are trying to reduce them to hysterical women.
(c) She things they are trying to paint them as lunatics.
(d) She things they want to destroy any solidarity between them.

3. What status did Angela Davis obtain in order to get out of solitary confinement?
(a) Legal investigator.
(b) Legal assistant.
(c) Member of her own legal team.
(d) Mental patient.

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

5. What did Angela Davis base her defense on, in part?
(a) The likelihood that the grand jury's indictment reflected the judge's bias.
(b) The fact that her trial cannot be separated from contemporary politics.
(c) The prospect that the government was just looking for a scapegoat for the Marin County Courthouse attack.
(d) The probability that evidence had been tampered with.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of her trial was Angela Davis involved in?

2. What options did Angela Davis's legal team have after the second day of the trial?

3. What was Angela Davis supposed to have with her, according to the demands that interrupted her trial?

4. What demands were conveyed to Angela Davis and the court?

5. When did Angela Davis return to the U.S.?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Angela Davis technically violate the terms of her bail bond?

2. What was Angela Davis's relationship with the Communist Party?

3. How did Angela Davis's lawyers arrange to get Davis out of solitary confinement?

4. Describe the conditions when Angela Davis arrived in the Santa Clara jail.

5. What did the prosecution build its case against Angela Davis on?

6. What was the relationship between different black liberation organizations when Angela Davis returned to California?

7. What did Angela Davis say in her opening statement to the jury?

8. Describe Angela Davis's experience in London on her way back to America.

9. What act of terrorism seemed to involve Angela Davis during her trial?

10. Describe the genesis of the book Angela Davis wrote from prison.

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