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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Shakur's mother-in-law do?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Administrative assistant.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Homemaker.
2. In Chapter 14, who did Shakur meet at the Manhattan Correctional Center that she had known from Riker's?
(a) Skeets and Charlie.
(b) Betty and Penny.
(c) Boots and Lori.
(d) Ann and Rachel.
3. In Chapter 18, who came to do a speaking engagement for Shakur, but was harassed until she left the state?
(a) Amiri Baraka.
(b) Angela Davis.
(c) Sonia Sanchez.
(d) June Jordan.
4. In Chapter 18, what was the name of the judge who order that the state pay for experts needed for Shakur's case?
(a) Victor Watson.
(b) Franklin Quinton.
(c) Thomas Bryant.
(d) Theodore Appleby.
5. In Chapter 13, what type of transportation did the doctor Shakur worked for use to get to the place where he volunteered?
(a) Motorcycle.
(b) An old school bus.
(c) A pickup truck.
(d) Volkswagen Bug.
6. In Chapter 11 when Shakur was going to court for the bank robbery, how many marshalls manhandled her?
(a) 6.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.
7. What was the name of a Mississippi lawyer who the Conference of Black Lawyers assigned to work on Shakur's case?
(a) Edward Franklin.
(b) Lewis Myers.
(c) Peter Brown.
(d) Charles Davidson.
8. When did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that Blacks were only three-fifths of a man?
(a) 1842.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1781.
(d) 1794.
9. By 1860, how many people in the United States worked in manufacturing?
(a) 1,715,000.
(b) 750,000.
(c) 1,385,000.
(d) 900,000.
10. In Chapter 18, who filed a civil suit against the state charging that Shakur's conditions in jail were cruel and inhuman?
(a) Lennox Hinds.
(b) David Andrews.
(c) Michael Summit.
(d) Robert Watson.
11. In Chapter 19, who was the fellow prisoner who helped Shakur better understand many issues in the white women's liberation movement?
(a) Maria Davis.
(b) Jane Alpert.
(c) Amanda Randall.
(d) Rita Brown.
12. When Shakur traveled after her marriage broke up in Chapter 13, what could be bought on street corners?
(a) Stalin's books.
(b) Lenin's books.
(c) Mao's Red Book.
(d) Hitler's Mein Kempf.
13. What was Shakur working on at the beginning of Chapter 16?
(a) Education stations.
(b) Railroad stations.
(c) Medical stations.
(d) Transportation stations.
14. In Chapter 18, what was the name of the hearing officer who was to review Shakur's jail conditions?
(a) Plotsky.
(b) Witowsky.
(c) Ploshnik.
(d) Rashnik.
15. In Chapter 13, where did a doctor that Shakur worked for volunteer once a week?
(a) Colorado Correctional Center.
(b) Apalachee Correctional Center.
(c) Alcatraz.
(d) Illinois River Correctional Center.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 13, when the New York Black Panthers were arrested, how much ransom was asked for each one?
2. In Chapter 13, where did Shakur decide to go after her marriage broke up?
3. In Chapter 18, who was the New Jersey lawyer who agreed to be the admitting lawyer for Shakur?
4. In Chatper 17, what did Shakur say that Blacks earned compared to Whites?
5. What was the name of the judge in Chapter 11 for the kidnapping trail?
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