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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Capital Punishment and Gary Gilmore.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the novel Abbott talks about in this section?
(a) The Red and the Black.
(b) The Stranger.
(c) The Immoralist.
(d) Strangers on a Train.

2. How did Striker kill himself?
(a) He starved himself.
(b) He hanged himself.
(c) He shot himself.
(d) He stabbed himself.

3. What does Abbott say guilt is a matter of?
(a) The state.
(b) The mind.
(c) Society.
(d) The heart.

4. What does Abbott call intelligence robbed of experience?
(a) Supersanity.
(b) Real intelligence.
(c) Depravity.
(d) Genius.

5. What does Abbott say a prisoner is killed in?
(a) Honor.
(b) Hate.
(c) Pride.
(d) Shame.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbott think Gilmore is attracted to?

2. What does Abbott do in solitary confinement just to hear something?

3. What does Abbott compare the hole to?

4. What is capital punishment said to encourage?

5. What does Abbott say he can't understand about Gilmore?

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