View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Hole: Solitary Confinement.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Abbott liken the experience of a being in a black cell to?
(a) Floating in space.
(b) Swimming in ink.
(c) Sleeping in a cave.
(d) Treading tar.

3. What does Abbott say he suffered from for four years?
(a) Bipolar.
(b) Arachnophobia.
(c) Arthitis.
(d) Claustrophobia.

4. What does Abbott say he did in 1971?
(a) Escaped prison.
(b) Attended a funeral.
(c) Killed an inmate.
(d) Killed a guard.

5. What is the name of the author Abbott references at the end of the chapter?
(a) Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Ernest Hemmingway.
(c) William James.
(d) Henry James.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a starvation diet consist of?

2. What do Abbott's fellow inmates do to ensure Abbott's release from the the starvation diet?

3. How did the guards try to control Abbott's claustrophobia?

4. What does Abbott call intelligence robbed of experience?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 224 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample