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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. For how long did the judge sentence Woodfox in Chapter 9?

2. How old was Woodfox when the Voting Rights Act was passed?

3. How many hostages did prisoners take at Attica penitentiary in Chapter 14?

4. In Chapter 17, how much money would Woodfox's mother bring when she came to visit?

5. In Chapter 12, how many men were put in each cell after a riot that Woodfox was involved in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. When and where was Woodfox born?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Woodfox suffered institutional racism from the time he was a child. What is institutional racism? How did it affect Woodfox’s life and the lives of his friends and family?

Essay Topic 3

Leontine “Teenie” Rogers was the widow of Brent Miller. Why did she begin to support Woodfox and believe that he was innocent? Why did she believe that there had been a miscarriage of justice in the investigation of her husband’s murder?

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