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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

How did the church bombing in Birmingham touch Angela Davis? (from Part 3, Waters)

She knew the minister at the church that was bombed.

She knew the people who bombed the church.

She didn't have any connection to it. She just heard about it in the paper.

She was friends with the girls who died.

2.

Who did Angela Davis spend her time in London with? (from Part 4, Flames)

Malcolm X.

Herbert Marcuse.

Friends.

The Black Power group.

3.

Why did Angela Davis believe that Blacks did not trust Marxism? (from Part 4, Flames)

They distrusted the equalizing promises of proletarian ownership.

They needed historical redress, not just economic inclusion.

They saw it as part of white culture.

They did not want to abolish owners, they wanted the right to be owners themselves.

4.

Whom did the press compare Angela Davis to in coverage of the trial? (from Part 5, Walls)

Franklin Alexander.

Ruchell Magee.

Bettina Aptheker.

Sheldon Otis.

5.

How does Angela Davis explain the press's coverage of herself and her co-defendant? (from Part 5, Walls)

She thinks they are intent on building up their radicalism.

She things they are trying to paint them as lunatics.

She thinks they are trying to reduce them to hysterical women.

She things they want to destroy any solidarity between them.

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