View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Abbott call intelligence robbed of experience?
(a) Genius.
(b) Depravity.
(c) Supersanity.
(d) Real intelligence.

2. What does Abbott compare the hole to?
(a) A nail bed.
(b) An iron maiden.
(c) An sacrificial altar.
(d) A coffin.

3. What does Abbott say his lungs were burning with?
(a) Cold air.
(b) Fossil fuels.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Warm air.

4. What does Abbott call the gradual wearing away of healthy aspects of one's psychology?
(a) Locked-on.
(b) Psyche-pain.
(c) Supersanity.
(d) Supersensory.

5. What does the policeman mentality allow some humans to do?
(a) Rise above others.
(b) Treat people badly.
(c) Earn more money.
(d) Make stupid rules.

6. What does Abbott say sex acts are demonstrations of?
(a) Love.
(b) Power.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Hate.

7. Which of the following philosophers is Abbott particularly drawn to?
(a) Nietschze.
(b) Marx.
(c) Kierkgaard.
(d) Kant.

8. Where does Abbott claim he has spent days lost?
(a) His past.
(b) His books.
(c) His head.
(d) His cell.

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

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

11. What does Abbott think theory must be studied in absence of?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Women.
(c) Real-world experience.
(d) Contact with other humans.

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

13. What does Abbott say he thought was crushing him?
(a) People.
(b) Stones.
(c) Walls.
(d) Steel doors.

14. Where does Abbott say he is marched to as a thirteen-year-old boy?
(a) A beach.
(b) A mess hall.
(c) A bomb shelter.
(d) A coal mine.

15. What does Abbott say prison has tried but failed to take away from him?
(a) His freedom.
(b) His love.
(c) His soul.
(d) His mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the punk the slave to?

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

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

4. What are strip cells used for?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 374 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample