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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Abbott claim he has spent days lost?
(a) His books.
(b) His past.
(c) His head.
(d) His cell.

2. What does Abbott say one feels happening to oneself when they are in the hole?
(a) Dying.
(b) Convulsing.
(c) Going mad.
(d) Decaying.

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

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

5. What does Abbott believe prison controls?
(a) One's thoughts.
(b) One's body.
(c) One's life.
(d) One's potential.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Abbott once falsely accused of stabbing?

2. What does Abbott say his lungs were burning with?

3. Where does Abbott say he is marched to as a thirteen-year-old boy?

4. What is the one thing the prisoners have in common?

5. What is the name of a cell that has no light coming into it?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the guards treat Abbott's claustrophobia?

2. How does Abbott fight the tedium of solitary confinement?

3. What does Abbott say about homosexuality in prison?

4. What does Abbott say about paranoia in this chapter?

5. What does Abbott say about revolution at the end of the chapter?

6. What does Abbott say prison punishment is aimed at?

7. Why does Abbott think the law against cruel and unusual punishment is a joke?

8. Why does Abbott say he continuously violates prison rules?

9. Why does Abbott say Pigs are so dangerous?

10. What is the policeman mentality?

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