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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. When did Woodfox have his first child?

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

3. In Chapter 9, who did Woodfox pretend to be when he was arrested and put in prison in New York?

4. What type of church did Aunt Gussie attend?

5. When was Woodfox released from prison?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When and where was Woodfox born?

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

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

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

6. In Chapter 14, what did Woodfox hear about an uprising at Attica?

7. What were conditions like at the Manhattan House of Detention in Chapter 9?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Allusions are figures of speech used when an author mentions a person, place, or thing, but does not provide background information about the person, place, or thing. What are some allusions that the author uses in the book? Is research required to understand the allusions the author makes? Does the use of allusions make understanding what is happening difficult?

Essay Topic 2

Imagery is a literary device authors use to describe something using the five senses to help readers experience what a character is experiencing. How does the author use imagery to help reader’s imagine the world he lived in?

Essay Topic 3

Deidre Howard served on a grand jury and learned later that she was given incomplete and misleading information about Woodfox’s case. What did experiences that Woodfox and Howard had with the legal system reveal about legal abuse?

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