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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbott say prison has tried but failed to take away from him?

2. What does a starvation diet consist of?

3. What is the one thing a convict respects?

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

5. Who does Abbott say pigs don't have to answer to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Abbott say the prisoners have in common?

2. Why does Abbott describe X's death as a mercy killing?

3. How does Abbott feel when he returns from prison life to solitary confinement?

4. What is a punk?

5. Why does Abbott say he continuously violates prison rules?

6. Why does Abbott compare the Hole to a coffin?

7. What does Abbott say about revolution at the end of the chapter?

8. What is the policeman mentality?

9. What happened to Abbott when he tried to run away from the juvenile center?

10. What is psyche pain?

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