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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much notice did Charles Garretson, the attorney for Woodfox and the others, given notice that Chester Jackson turned state's evidence?
(a) 20 minutes.
(b) About 15 minutes.
(c) 10 minutes.
(d) Less than a half an hour.

2. How old was Woodfox when his stepfather had to retire from the Navy?
(a) 12.
(b) 9.
(c) 10.
(d) 11.

3. At the end of Chapter 3, how many days could Woodfox spend in Angola and then be transferred for good behavior?
(a) 60.
(b) 180.
(c) 90.
(d) 30.

4. When was Woodfox sent back to New Orleans in Chapter 12?
(a) March 1971.
(b) May 1971.
(c) April 1971.
(d) June 1971.

5. In Chapter 7, how much money was Woodfox given when he left Angola?
(a) $20.
(b) $5.
(c) $15.
(d) $10.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first African American woman to be elected to and serve in the Louisiana House of Representatives?

2. In Chapter 20, how much did Woodfox learn that Gi and Jill Schafer were paid by the FBI a year to break up the support committee for the Angola 4?

3. In Chapter 5, what could be used to bribe an inmate clerk to change a disciplinary report from something serious to something minor?

4. In Chapter 4, what percent of the fieldwork at Angola was done by hand?

5. In Chapter 8, how many times did Woodfox say that he was charged with rape?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Woodfox believe that Robert King was accused of murder of a prisoner on his tier?

2. How was the Black Panther Party started and why?

3. Why did Woodfox's mother leave her husband, James Mable?

4. In Chapter 6, why did Woodfox work on maintaining a tough reputation in prison?

5. In Chapter 3, why was Woodfox sentenced to two years at the Thibodaux jail?

6. What choices for confinement was Woodfox given at the end of Chapter 3?

7. In Chapter 10, what did Woodfox learn from the Black Panthers?

8. How did Woodfox and Herman Wallace work to stop the sex trade at Angola?

9. Why did a former prisoner named Billy Sinclair say that he believed that Woodfox and Herman Wallace were innocent?

10. Why was Paul Fobb an unreliable witness for Brent Miller's murder?

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