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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Angela Davis live with during high school?

2. Where did Angela Davis do her graduate work?

3. What kind of scholarship did Angela Davis get for college?

4. What organization did most of Angela Davis's friends in Germany belong to?

5. Who had been killed two days prior to the moment when the book begins?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where was Angela Davis at the beginning of the book, and where was she going?

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

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

6. What did Angela Davis study in high school?

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

8. Where was Angela Davis kept when she was in prison, and when was she moved?

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

10. Describe Angela Davis's travels in Germany.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways was the Civil Rights movement an American movement, in keeping with the ideals of the founders who fought for freedom? In what ways was their situation unique in American history? What precedents did it have to fight against? What precedents did it establish?

Essay Topic 2

Did Angela Davis's education and her "not-so-poor" upbringing make her an exception among black women, separating her from the majority of blacks, or did her background make her an exemplar for blacks and a leader who represented the others?

Essay Topic 3

Black discourse and use of dialect and non-standard English has established a wide range of possible voices for black thinkers, activists, and artists. Where did Angela Davis position herself in her autobiography? What audience did she want to reach by taking the stance she did?

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