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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Robby characterize the person who helps them?
(a) Subversive.
(b) Jaded.
(c) Experienced.
(d) Naïve.

2. Who is Omar?
(a) Tanya's brother.
(b) John's son.
(c) Leslie's son.
(d) Robby's son.

3. How do conditions change in the prison after Robby's appeals are denied?
(a) Prisoners are returned to society more often.
(b) Prisoners are given more chances for rehabilitation.
(c) Prisoners are given more educational opportunities.
(d) Prisoners' rights are reduced.

4. What pact does Robby say he and the others had made?
(a) Not to spend the marked bills they got.
(b) Not to make any phone calls.
(c) To split up the money evenly.
(d) Not to call family.

5. What does John say happens in Pittsburgh in summer?
(a) The city turns into a garden in the shade of the trees.
(b) It gets hot but nothing changes.
(c) The city becomes a morgue, with no one moving.
(d) The city turns into a prison because of the heat.

6. What advice did Cecil get when he called his mother?
(a) To come back to Pittsburgh.
(b) To turn himself in Indiana.
(c) To go to Canada.
(d) To go to California.

7. When is 'Doing Time II' set?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1989.

8. Who were the cops looking for after the robbery?
(a) Cecil.
(b) Wanda.
(c) Mike.
(d) Robby.

9. Whose house did Robby go to after the heist?
(a) Mike's.
(b) Wanda's.
(c) His own.
(d) Tanya's.

10. What does John say inspired his first draft?
(a) Impatience.
(b) Love.
(c) Disgust.
(d) Fear.

11. What does John say Robby displays that he himself does not think he could display?
(a) Exasperation with the prison system.
(b) Courage in prison.
(c) Lack of control over his rage.
(d) Fear.

12. What does Robby say people in the ghetto dream about?
(a) Getting out of the ghetto.
(b) A house with a white picket fence.
(c) Living easy in the Virgin Islands.
(d) The glamour of having a lot of money.

13. How did Stavros find out that he had been set up?
(a) All his TVs had been stolen while he was inside with Robby and Michael Dukes.
(b) Cecil Rice was in the truck with a shotgun.
(c) The cops showed up.
(d) Robby shot him.

14. What does Robby say he wants prisoners to become?
(a) An investment in society's future.
(b) Positive role models for youth.
(c) Productive members of society.
(d) A resource for innovation.

15. Where does Robby plan to go, after Chicago?
(a) Indiana.
(b) New York.
(c) Michigan.
(d) L.A.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robby say about his line of sight when Stavros went into the back?

2. To what does Robby compare himself and the other inmates?

3. Who is Leslie?

4. What does Robby say he felt on the night of the botched robbery?

5. What does Robby say motivated him to work hard?

(see the answer keys)

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