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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who does Abbott say pigs don't have to answer to?
(a) God.
(b) The people.
(c) Themselves.
(d) The government.

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

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

7. Why was Abbott sent to the Utah State Penitentiary?
(a) He hit a police officer.
(b) He stabbed a clerk to death.
(c) He bought a car with someone else's credit card.
(d) He issued a check against insufficient funds.

8. What is the name of the poem Abbott recites in this chapter?
(a) Paranoia.
(b) Lies.
(c) Fools.
(d) Death.

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

10. What does Abbott say he suffered from for four years?
(a) Arachnophobia.
(b) Arthitis.
(c) Claustrophobia.
(d) Bipolar.

11. Why does Abbott think the law against cruel and unusual punishment is a joke?
(a) It is the only way prisoners learn.
(b) People have their different ideas of cruelty.
(c) Only convicts witness it.
(d) Most prisoners have never heard about the law.

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

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

14. What is a prisoner given once a day as part of the C-300 punishment?
(a) Soup.
(b) A bath.
(c) A sponge.
(d) Water.

15. What does Abbott say becomes reality while in solitary confinement?
(a) Nightmares.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Death.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbott say he did in 1971?

2. What did Abbott do to conserve energy during his starvation diet?

3. What does Abbott say a prison guard can do without consequence?

4. What does Abbott call the second prisoner he recalls in this chapter?

5. What does Abbott say prisoners live by?

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