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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Abbott claim guards instigate violence in prison?
(a) They bully the weak.
(b) They spit in prisoner's meals.
(c) They pool people into racial groups.
(d) They put innocent people into solitary.

2. Who runs the dance hall mentioned in #152?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Mormons.
(c) Baptists.
(d) Ex-slaves.

3. What did one newspaper document that happened following several executions?
(a) A riot.
(b) Violent acts.
(c) A community wide crime spree.
(d) A communtiy wide depression.

4. Who does Abbott say are the only people able to cut through prejudice?
(a) Outsiders.
(b) Geniuses.
(c) True soldiers.
(d) Christians.

5. Why was an autopsy never performed on Blackie?
(a) He had no relatives.
(b) He was a criminal.
(c) He killed himself.
(d) He died of natural causes.

6. What does Abbott question about Gilmore?
(a) His sense of timing.
(b) His sanity.
(c) His upbringing.
(d) His intelligence.

7. What does Abbott say Americans have a hunger for?
(a) Burgers.
(b) True crime.
(c) Religion.
(d) The death penalty.

8. What does Abbott think Gilmore is attracted to?
(a) Fame.
(b) The afterlife.
(c) The death sentence.
(d) The underworld.

9. What does Abbott say he is conflicted about?
(a) The prospect of freedom.
(b) His love for his country.
(c) The prospect of a family.
(d) Moving to another prison.

10. What political figure does Abbott say he feels close to?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Hitler.

11. What is Abbott's pen pal's ambition?
(a) To become a criminologist.
(b) To become a housewife.
(c) To become a lawyer.
(d) To become an actress.

12. What kind of death does Abbott say prisoners enter when they enter prison?
(a) A state death.
(b) A civil death.
(c) A slow death.
(d) A humorless death.

13. What does Abbott say is a fading dream?
(a) His soul.
(b) Communist revolution.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Family.

14. What does Abbott claim every Communist revolution brings the world closer to?
(a) Freedom for all.
(b) Its ideal state.
(c) Destruction.
(d) Complete poverty.

15. Who does Abbott say inherited the mathematics test?
(a) South Americans.
(b) Asians.
(c) Europeans.
(d) Africans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Red and Black's protagonist?

2. What does Abbott say men view each other as in American society?

3. Which author does Abbott reference in this section?

4. What does Abbott say he appreciates seeing on his cell window?

5. What does Abbott say the man that denies human nature is denying for himself?

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