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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 city did Abbott escape to?

2. What is the name of the punishment cell Abbott stayed in for a total exceeding more than one year?

3. What does Abbott say he forgot while in his hotel room?

4. Who is the punk the slave to?

5. What did Abbott do to conserve energy during his starvation diet?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Abbott say about his early life?

4. What was it like to be in the blackout cell?

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

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

7. What is supersanity?

8. Who are pigs?

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

10. What does Abbott say about homosexuality in prison?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What does Abbott think is wrong with America? In what way could his views be described as limited? Is there any validity to his claims?

Essay Topic 3

Why has murder become commonplace in prison? How can the authorities stop such violence occurring in prisons?

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