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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Abbott think will end the policeman mentality?
(a) World War Three.
(b) A prisoner strike.
(c) A worldwide revolution.
(d) A worker's revolution.

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

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

4. What does Abbot say it is now routine for him to try to do?
(a) Think about his homeland.
(b) Escape prison.
(c) Abuse the guards.
(d) Write short stories.

5. What does Abbott say a prison guard can do without consequence?
(a) Cause a riot.
(b) Steal from an inmate.
(c) Beat an inmate.
(d) Sleep on duty.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What is a shiv?
(a) A weapon.
(b) A fossil.
(c) A card game.
(d) A kebab.

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

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

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

15. What did Abbott eat in addition to his starvation diet?
(a) Mice.
(b) Cockroaches.
(c) Bats.
(d) Rats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Abbott sent to Butner North Carolina Correctional Institute for?

2. What does Abbott say a bull is pricked with?

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

4. How did the guards try to control Abbott's claustrophobia?

5. What is a prisoner given once a day as part of the C-300 punishment?

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