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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Abbot say is the natural result of prison violence?
(a) Murder.
(b) Strike.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Peace.

2. What drug is Abbott give to stop him from hallucinating?
(a) Somax.
(b) Bendedrine.
(c) Morphine.
(d) Thorazine.

3. Who does Abbot claim are evil?
(a) Guards.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Judges.
(d) Probation officers.

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

5. What does Abbott say he dreamed about in his hotel room?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Prison.
(c) Hell.
(d) Family.

6. What does Abbott do in solitary confinement just to hear something?
(a) Mutters to himself.
(b) Hits the walls.
(c) Stamps his feet.
(d) Sings.

7. What did Abbott do to conserve energy during his starvation diet?
(a) Lay still.
(b) Read.
(c) Held his breath.
(d) Meditate.

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

9. What are strip cells used for?
(a) Surgery.
(b) Reading.
(c) Recovery.
(d) Punishment.

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

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

12. What does Abbott say a prisoner is killed in?
(a) Shame.
(b) Pride.
(c) Honor.
(d) Hate.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbott believe prison controls?

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

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

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

5. Who is Abbott writing to?

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