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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. How did Angela Davis travel to high school?
2. Whose family did Angela Davis spend time with in New York as a child?
3. Why didn't Angela Davis join the communist movement at her college?
4. How did some students react to the Cuban Missile Crisis?
5. What was Angela Davis feeling when she was waiting to leave her location at the beginning of the book?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Angela Davis's high school.
2. Describe Angela Davis's experience at the Helsinki festival.
3. What was Angela Davis's first experience of life outside the South, free of racism?
4. What conclusions did Angela Davis reach as a result of her time in Helsinki?
5. Describe the decision that led Angela Davis out of Birmingham.
6. Describe Angela Davis's arrival at college.
7. What movement had Angela Davis been involved in when she went into hiding from the police?
8. Where was Angela Davis kept when she was in prison, and when was she moved?
9. How did Angela Davis communicate with her family during her flight from the police and then her imprisonment?
10. Why had Angela Davis lost her teaching position at the University of California?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
After the Eighth World Festival for Youth and Students, Angela Davis had a vision of universal personhood: she saw the differences between people as smaller than their similarities. How much did her career and experiences bear out her vision of unity that transcended race, class, gender, or other distinguishing characteristics?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Where was Angela Davis most free and comfortable in society? Was it in Europe, where she was free from American race tensions? Or America, where she was fighting the fight for her people?
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