In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 100 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 100 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
Buy the In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison Lesson Plans
Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Abbott say he can't control?
(a) His fear.
(b) His tears.
(c) His anger.
(d) His writings.

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

3. What happens to Abbott after twenty three days in the blackout cell?
(a) He has a nervous breakdown.
(b) He starts to hallucinate.
(c) He has a heart attack.
(d) He has a seizure.

4. What do Abbott's fellow inmates do to ensure Abbott's release from the the starvation diet?
(a) Go on strike.
(b) Break Abbott free.
(c) Give Abbott their food.
(d) Take a guard hostage.

5. What does Abbott say intelligence becomes if it is robbed of actual experience?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Pure.
(c) Locked.
(d) Hate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbott do in solitary confinement just to hear something?

2. What do guards look upon prisoners as?

3. What does Abbott think theory must be studied in absence of?

4. What does Abbott say he is amazed of the feel of when he is out of solitary?

5. Where does Abbott say he is marched to as a thirteen-year-old boy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is murder so common in prison?

3. Who are pigs?

4. What does Abbott say about homosexuality in prison?

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

6. What is supersanity?

7. What does Abbott say about his early life?

8. Why does Abbott say Pigs are so dangerous?

9. What crimes does Abbott say he committed?

10. What is a punk?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 654 words
(approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison Lesson Plans
Copyrights
BookRags
In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison from BookRags. (c)2025 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.