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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbott say he finds painful and angering to look into?

2. What does Abbott say becomes reality while in solitary confinement?

3. What is the name of a cell that has no light coming into it?

4. What does Abbott say policeman obey?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is murder so common in prison?

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

3. How does Abbott fight the tedium of solitary confinement?

4. What does Abbott say about his early life?

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

6. How do his fellow inmates save Abbott from starvation?

7. What does Abbott say about the noise in a prison?

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

9. What is life like for Abbott in solitary confinement at the juvenile center?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Abbott think rehabilitation rather than punishment is the key to curing prisoners? How could you criticize Abbott's view?

Essay Topic 2

What are Abbott's political beliefs and how do you think these beliefs developed? Considering he has spent all his life in prison, how legitimate are Abbott's beliefs?

Essay Topic 3

What is supersanity? Why does Abbott think supersanity is so conducive to deep thinking?

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