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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Abbott think are treated better than people in the hole?
(a) Refugees.
(b) Animals in a zoo.
(c) Prisoners on death row.
(d) Siberian war prisoners.

3. What is the name of the punishment cell Abbott stayed in for a total exceeding more than one year?
(a) The Pit.
(b) The clam.
(c) The hole.
(d) The C-300.

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

5. What does Abbott say intelligence becomes if it is robbed of actual experience?
(a) Locked.
(b) Pure.
(c) Hate.
(d) Insanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbott say he can't control?

2. What does Abbott say one feels happening to oneself when they are in the hole?

3. What does Abbott think theory must be studied in absence of?

4. Which of the following philosophers is Abbott particularly drawn to?

5. Which of the following does Abbott say strikes him as beautiful when he is out of solitary?

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