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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. Where did Angela Davis's current situation begin?

2. What was Angela Davis's mother's occupation?

3. How was Angela Davis involved in the police raid on Franklin and Kendra Alexander's apartment?

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

5. Where did Angela Davis go from Chicago?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Angela Davis's experience of the Birmingham church bombings?

3. How did Angela Davis communicate with her family during her flight from the police and then her imprisonment?

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

5. Describe Angela Davis's trip from New York to Helsinki.

6. Why had Angela Davis lost her teaching position at the University of California?

7. Describe Angela Davis's trip to New York for school.

8. Describe Angela Davis's experience at the Helsinki festival.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How were black American Communists different from other Communists around the world? How were their goals similar? How were they opposed? How was the Civil Rights movement irreconcilable with the Communists' goals?

Essay Topic 2

How have forms of political activism changed since the "war on terror" started after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks in 2001? Would the Civil Rights movement have taken place differently today?

Essay Topic 3

Write a review of the book. What are the book's strengths and weaknesses? What were its goals and methods? Did it achieve them?

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