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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the only part of his body that X could move?
(a) His leg.
(b) His thumb.
(c) His forefinger.
(d) His eyelid.

3. What does Abbott say policeman obey?
(a) Themselves.
(b) Violence.
(c) The state.
(d) Hatred.

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

5. What does a starvation diet consist of?
(a) A baked potato and a piece of bread.
(b) An apple and a slice of cheese.
(c) A bowl of broth and a biscuit.
(d) A cup of soup and a sandwich.

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

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

8. What does Abbott comapre the noise one hears inside a prison to?
(a) A mental hospital.
(b) The Senate.
(c) A zoo.
(d) Kindergarten.

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

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

11. What does Abbott say is the usual murder weapon?
(a) A knife.
(b) A club.
(c) A gun.
(d) A razor.

12. What does Abbott say he was sent to prison to become?
(a) A punk.
(b) A worker.
(c) A shifter.
(d) A writer.

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

14. What is the one thing a convict respects?
(a) Immorality.
(b) Hierachy.
(c) Moral strength.
(d) Violence.

15. What of the following does Abbott say gives a security guard a reason for shooting a prisoner?
(a) Touching another prisoner.
(b) Laughinh too loudly.
(c) Running in the corridor.
(d) Swearing at the warden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbott think will end the policeman mentality?

2. What mentality does Abbott say the guards have?

3. What does the policeman mentality allow some humans to do?

4. What does Abbott say one must fight while in the hole?

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

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