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

2. What type of vehicle did Woodfox trade for in Chapter 8 for a van full of cigarettes he got in a robbery?

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

4. At what distance was it later discovered that Paul Fobb's eyesight was so bad he could not have identified anyone?

5. What were prisoners given to eat who were put in the "dungeon" (29) in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Paul Fobb an unreliable witness for Brent Miller's murder?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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?

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