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

2. Who was Abbott once falsely accused of stabbing?
(a) A priest.
(b) A prison guard.
(c) A warden.
(d) A fellow inmate.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a starvation diet consist of?

2. What does Abbott say he had to do to urinate while in the Butner institution?

3. Who is Abbott writing to?

4. Who does Abbott say are the source of the guard's evil?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Abbott think the law against cruel and unusual punishment is a joke?

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

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

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

5. What is a punk?

6. Why is murder so common in prison?

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

8. How did Abbot try to survive the starvation diet?

9. How did the guards treat Abbott's claustrophobia?

10. What happened to Striker?

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