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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. How did Striker kill himself?

2. What does Abbott call the atmosphere in which the Pigs recruit?

3. What is the name of the author Abbott references at the end of the chapter?

4. What does Abbott say he thought was crushing him?

5. What city did Abbott escape to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Abbott compare prison to a bull ring and the prisoner to a bull?

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

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

5. What does Abbott say about homosexuality in prison?

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

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

8. Why does Abbott say Pigs are so dangerous?

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

10. Who are pigs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did so many people in American prisons take up the principles of Communism? How did the Communists take adavantage of this?

Essay Topic 2

What was Abbott's upbringing? How much was it responsible for his incarceration?

Essay Topic 3

What is Abbott's relationship with Mailer and why do the students he feels free to talk him like he does? How did their relationship develop after the book was published?

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