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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 call all of the employees within the prison system?

2. What do Abbott's fellow inmates do to ensure Abbott's release from the the starvation diet?

3. What does Abbott say he was sent to prison to become?

4. What does Abbott say he did in 1971?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the policeman mentality?

6. What crimes does Abbott say he committed?

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

8. Why is murder so common in prison?

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

10. What does Abbott say about his early life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what could it be said that Abbott is institutionalized? What diffferent view does this give Abbott on life? What do you think society could from Abbott's views?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Abbott think democracy is so slanted against black people? In what way does Communist philosophy try to do away with such prejudice?

Essay Topic 3

How has reading and studying changed Abbott as a person? What kind of person do you think he would have become if he had a proper education?

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