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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Doing Time, I. November 16, 1975.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does John get at the beginning of the book?
(a) His brother has received a life sentence.
(b) His brother has just finished school.
(c) His brother has shown up at his mother's house.
(d) His brother has murdered a man.

2. What is it the prisoners notice about children, according to John?
(a) Their free imaginations.
(b) Their eyes.
(c) Their bodies.
(d) Their voices.

3. What does Robby say people in the ghetto valued?
(a) Good times.
(b) Family.
(c) Hard work.
(d) Race pride.

4. What does John say he and his family see when they drive up?
(a) Chain link fences and dogs.
(b) Barbed wire and guards.
(c) Guard towers and guns.
(d) Crowds of waiting visitors.

5. How does Robby characterize the people he worked with?
(a) Unstable junkies.
(b) Dangerous felons.
(c) Tortured kids.
(d) Space cadets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the exception to this rule?

2. John says that the prisoners are like him except for what?

3. What is it that unites almost all the prisoners?

4. What do the prisoners see children as, according to John?

5. What does Cecil's mother think will happen if he follows her advice?

(see the answer key)

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