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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 was the date in Chapter 16?

2. When did Woodfox have his first child?

3. How old was the boy that Woodfox saw Joseph Richey follow into the bathroom in Chapter 14?

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

5. How many points were there in the program of the Black Panther Party?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When and where was Woodfox born?

4. What was the violence like at Angola in Chapter 4?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Colors are sometimes associated with mood. If you could assign a color to represent the mood Solitary, what color would it be? Why? Would you choose different colors to describe the mood during different periods of Woodfox’s life?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 3

Woodfox, Wallace, and King protested against practices in prison. Why did Woodfox, Wallace, and King protest against solitary confinement, strip searches, and other practices in prison? Why did they consider those practices to be cruel and unusual punishment?

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