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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Prison Staff.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the one thing the prisoners have in common?
(a) Their hatred for the guards.
(b) Their need for women.
(c) Their boredom.
(d) The moral codes.

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

3. What does Abbott call all of the employees within the prison system?
(a) Rotters.
(b) Psychos.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Dogs.

4. What does Abbott say one feels happening to oneself when they are in the hole?
(a) Going mad.
(b) Decaying.
(c) Dying.
(d) Convulsing.

5. What does Abbott condemn every government employee of the prison system as?
(a) Unkind and heartless.
(b) Brutal and dishonest.
(c) Meglomanic and bored.
(d) Violent and tyrannical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the author Abbott references at the end of the chapter?

2. What does Abbott say he had to do to urinate while in the Butner institution?

3. Where does Abbott say he spent his childhood?

4. What are strip cells used for?

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

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