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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. What was the relationship between the Students Non-violent Coordinating Committee and the Communist Party?

2. What did Angela Davis base her defense on, in part?

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

4. Who did Angela Davis spend her time in London with?

5. What was Angela Davis supposed to be wearing when she met the people making the demands that disturbed the trial?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Angela Davis go after she was free on bail?

2. What did Angela Davis and her legal team learn about the Soledad Brothers during her trial?

3. What did the judge read from at the close of Angela Davis's trial?

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

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

6. What role did Angela Davis play in the Black Panthers Political Party?

7. What was Franklin Alexander's position on black liberation?

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

9. What political activity did Angela Davis get involved in almost as soon as she returned to the U.S.?

10. What happened that allowed Angela Davis to be set free on bail?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Angela Davis's family with the people with whom she fought in the Civil Rights movement. How are the families different? How are they similar? How did Angela Davis treat the two "families" differently?

Essay Topic 2

Angela Davis and her supporters helped each other not only when they were brought up on false charges, but they also broke the law in order to shelter each other and hide each other from the police. Is this an ethical stance to take--to defy the law--or were there other avenues that might have been effective? Were Davis and her supporters obligated to break the law or follow it?

Essay Topic 3

Was it useful for Angela Davis to see society itself as the culprit in the death of Gregory Clark or others? Or did it diffuse her political activities?

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