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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Varieties of Punishment.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Abbott say he finds painful and angering to look into?
(a) A microscope.
(b) A telescope.
(c) A window.
(d) A mirror.

3. Who is Abbott writing to?
(a) Ernest Hemmingway.
(b) Patricia Highsmith.
(c) Truman Capote.
(d) Norman Mailer.

4. What did Abbott eat in addition to his starvation diet?
(a) Bats.
(b) Cockroaches.
(c) Mice.
(d) Rats.

5. What is the name of a cell that has no light coming into it?
(a) A black out cell.
(b) A dark cell.
(c) A night cell.
(d) An iron maiden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbott liken the experience of a being in a black cell to?

2. What happens to Abbott after twenty three days in the blackout cell?

3. What two people did Abbott learn had died during his time in the C-300 cell?

4. What does Abbott say he forgot while in his hotel room?

5. What does Abbott say was the only serious crime he committed in free society?

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