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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Abbott say he was sent to prison to become?
(a) A shifter.
(b) A worker.
(c) A writer.
(d) A punk.

3. What does Abbott think will end the policeman mentality?
(a) World War Three.
(b) A worldwide revolution.
(c) A prisoner strike.
(d) A worker's revolution.

4. What was Abbott sent to Butner North Carolina Correctional Institute for?
(a) Criminological experimentation.
(b) Psychological experimentation.
(c) Drug experimentation.
(d) Organ experimentation.

5. What does Abbott say he finds painful and angering to look into?
(a) A telescope.
(b) A window.
(c) A microscope.
(d) A mirror.

6. Which of the following philosophers is Abbott particularly drawn to?
(a) Kant.
(b) Nietschze.
(c) Marx.
(d) Kierkgaard.

7. What are strip cells used for?
(a) Recovery.
(b) Surgery.
(c) Punishment.
(d) Reading.

8. What is a prisoner given once a day as part of the C-300 punishment?
(a) A bath.
(b) Water.
(c) Soup.
(d) A sponge.

9. What is the name of the poem Abbott recites in this chapter?
(a) Death.
(b) Fools.
(c) Lies.
(d) Paranoia.

10. What does Abbott say he pushed aside while in prison?
(a) Hate.
(b) Fear.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Love.

11. What does Abbott say sex acts are demonstrations of?
(a) Love.
(b) Hate.
(c) Power.
(d) Freedom.

12. What two people did Abbott learn had died during his time in the C-300 cell?
(a) Bobby Kennedy and his father.
(b) President Nixon and his brother.
(c) Malcolm X and his sister.
(d) JFK and his mother.

13. What does Abbott say he thought was crushing him?
(a) Steel doors.
(b) Walls.
(c) Stones.
(d) People.

14. What is the one thing a convict respects?
(a) Moral strength.
(b) Hierachy.
(c) Violence.
(d) Immorality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What of the following does Abbott say gives a security guard a reason for shooting a prisoner?

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

3. Why was Abbott sent to the Utah State Penitentiary?

4. What is the worst crime one can commit while in prison?

5. What does Abbott say he had to do to urinate while in the Butner institution?

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