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

2. 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.

3. What does Abbott think are treated better than people in the hole?
(a) Animals in a zoo.
(b) Refugees.
(c) Prisoners on death row.
(d) Siberian war prisoners.

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

5. What does Abbott say was the only serious crime he committed in free society?
(a) Car theft.
(b) Bank robbery.
(c) Fraud.
(d) GBH.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbott say one feels happening to oneself when they are in the hole?

2. What did Abbott eat in addition to his starvation diet?

3. What does Abbot say is the natural result of prison violence?

4. What does Abbott claim he contracted in institutions?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Abbott say prison punishment is aimed at?

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

9. What was Abbott's time like at the Butner North Carolina Federal Correctional Institution?

10. What does Abbott say about paranoia in this chapter?

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