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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 say he spent his childhood?
(a) Foster homes.
(b) Orphanages.
(c) Penal institutions.
(d) Work farms.
2. Why was Abbott sent to the Utah State Penitentiary?
(a) He bought a car with someone else's credit card.
(b) He stabbed a clerk to death.
(c) He hit a police officer.
(d) He issued a check against insufficient funds.
3. What two people did Abbott learn had died during his time in the C-300 cell?
(a) JFK and his mother.
(b) Bobby Kennedy and his father.
(c) Malcolm X and his sister.
(d) President Nixon and his brother.
4. What does Abbott say prison has tried but failed to take away from him?
(a) His freedom.
(b) His soul.
(c) His love.
(d) His mind.
5. What does Abbott say his lungs were burning with?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Warm air.
(c) Cold air.
(d) Fossil fuels.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Abbott say intelligence becomes if it is robbed of actual experience?
2. What is a prisoner given once a day as part of the C-300 punishment?
3. What mentality does Abbott say the guards have?
4. What does Abbott say one must do to someone before they kill them?
5. What does Abbott call the gradual wearing away of healthy aspects of one's psychology?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do his fellow inmates save Abbott from starvation?
2. What is a punk?
3. What is psyche pain?
4. Why does Abbott say Pigs are so dangerous?
5. Why does Abbott think the law against cruel and unusual punishment is a joke?
6. How does Abbott fight the tedium of solitary confinement?
7. Who are pigs?
8. What was it like to be in the blackout cell?
9. What was Abbott's time like at the Butner North Carolina Federal Correctional Institution?
10. Why is murder so common in prison?
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