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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 say he forgot while in his hotel room?
(a) He had money.
(b) He was free.
(c) He was alive.
(d) He was on the run.

2. What did Abbott do to conserve energy during his starvation diet?
(a) Read.
(b) Held his breath.
(c) Lay still.
(d) Meditate.

3. How did the guards try to control Abbott's claustrophobia?
(a) They gave him a bigger cell.
(b) They sedated him at night.
(c) They put a stop to his solitary confinement.
(d) They tied him to his bed.

4. What does Abbott claim he contracted in institutions?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) Anger.
(d) Bipolar.

5. What two people did Abbott learn had died during his time in the C-300 cell?
(a) President Nixon and his brother.
(b) Malcolm X and his sister.
(c) JFK and his mother.
(d) Bobby Kennedy and his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Abbott writing to?

2. What is the name of the poem Abbott recites in this chapter?

3. Where does Abbott say he spent his childhood?

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

5. What does Abbott say intelligence becomes if it is robbed of actual experience?

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