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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 a California Republican assemblyman from Oakland introduce a bill to repeal the California gun law that allowed openly carrying loaded firearms?
2. How many hostages did prisoners take at Attica penitentiary in Chapter 14?
3. In Chapter 6, what was Woodfox's bail for car theft?
4. What day of the week did Woodfox and Herman begin escorting new prisoners to their dorms in Chapter 15?
5. What was the first job that Woodfox was fired from in Chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Woodfox and others get a chance to speak to the media and Rep. Dorothy Mae Taylor in Chapter 13?
2. Why did Woodfox's mother leave her husband, James Mable?
3. How did Woodfox break his addiction to drugs in Chapter 7?
4. What choices for confinement was Woodfox given at the end of Chapter 3?
5. Why was Paul Fobb an unreliable witness for Brent Miller's murder?
6. In Chapter 14, what did Woodfox hear about an uprising at Attica?
7. In Chapter 6, why did Woodfox work on maintaining a tough reputation in prison?
8. What did Woodfox determine he would do at the end of Chapter 12?
9. How did Woodfox describe how his first child was born in Chapter 2?
10. What was the violence like at Angola in Chapter 4?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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 stated that he grew up in the Jim Crow south. What were Jim Crow laws? How did they affect Woodfox’s life and the lives of other blacks in the South?
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