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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. What was the first job that Woodfox was fired from in Chapter 6?
(a) Hotel porter.
(b) Car lot attendant.
(c) Dishwasher.
(d) Car wash attendant.

2. How many acres of farmland made up Angola in Chapter 4?
(a) 16,000.
(b) 18,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 11,000.

3. Where was Woodfox born?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Baton Rouge.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) New Orleans.

4. In Chapter 6, what was Woodfox's bail for car theft?
(a) $300.
(b) $500.
(c) $250.
(d) $100.

5. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the boy who bullied Woodfox and that Woodfox finally beat up?
(a) Michael.
(b) David.
(c) Louis.
(d) Lawrence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much did prisoners earn for working in the fields without gloves for a 16 hour day in Chapter 16?

3. In Chapter 9, when did a friend leave Woodfox a gun in the bathroom at a courtroom?

4. In Chapter 7, how much money was Woodfox given when he left Angola?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did Woodfox and others get a chance to speak to the media and Rep. Dorothy Mae Taylor in Chapter 13?

7. What did Woodfox determine he would do at the end of Chapter 12?

8. What was the most effective way of protesting and why in Chapter 19?

9. What was solitary confinement like at Angola in Chapter 5?

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

(see the answer keys)

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