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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Gods and Drugs, and, Choosing Sides: Communists and Marxism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Abbott liken the experience of a being in a black cell to?
(a) Swimming in ink.
(b) Floating in space.
(c) Sleeping in a cave.
(d) Treading tar.

2. What does Abbott say is the form of the truth from a certain view point?
(a) Real life.
(b) Propaganda.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Prison life.

3. Why does Abbott think the law against cruel and unusual punishment is a joke?
(a) Most prisoners have never heard about the law.
(b) It is the only way prisoners learn.
(c) Only convicts witness it.
(d) People have their different ideas of cruelty.

4. What does Abbott call the gradual wearing away of healthy aspects of one's psychology?
(a) Psyche-pain.
(b) Locked-on.
(c) Supersanity.
(d) Supersensory.

5. What is the name of the punishment cell Abbott stayed in for a total exceeding more than one year?
(a) The Pit.
(b) The C-300.
(c) The hole.
(d) The clam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbott call the atmosphere in which the Pigs recruit?

2. What is a shiv?

3. Who does Abbot claim are evil?

4. What does Abbott comapre the noise one hears inside a prison to?

5. What drug does Abbott call therapeutic?

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