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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 many months did Woodfox have to do during his second time at Angola in Chapter 6?
(a) 12 months.
(b) 8 months.
(c) 10 months.
(d) 16 months.

2. How old was Woodfox when the Voting Rights Act was passed?
(a) 18.
(b) 16.
(c) 17.
(d) 19.

3. In Chapter 17, how much money would Woodfox's mother bring when she came to visit?
(a) $15 or $20.
(b) $10.
(c) $5.
(d) $20 or $25.

4. 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?
(a) $13,000.
(b) $12,000.
(c) $17,000.
(d) $16,000.

5. In Chapter 5, what could be used to bribe an inmate clerk to change a disciplinary report from something serious to something minor?
(a) Carton of cigarettes.
(b) Knife.
(c) $10.
(d) $5.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did a California Republican assemblyman from Oakland introduce a bill to repeal the California gun law that allowed openly carrying loaded firearms?

2. When was King retried for murder and convicted a second time in Chapter 22?

3. When was the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense started?

4. In Chapter 22, who was set up for the murder of a prisoner on his tier?

5. In April of 1970, how many prisoners awaiting trial in the Tombs said they had seen a guard assault an inmate?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what did it mean to "clean the books" (53) and how did it affect Woodfox?

2. Who was Brent Miller and how did he die?

3. How did Woodfox break his addiction to drugs in Chapter 7?

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

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

6. What happened to the money raised for Woodfox's trial expenses in 1973?

7. At the beginning of Chapter 2, what would Woodfox and his friends do after school?

8. When and where was Woodfox born?

9. How did Woodfox describe how his first child was born in Chapter 2?

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

(see the answer keys)

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