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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 was King retried for murder and convicted a second time in Chapter 22?

2. When did Woodfox have his first child?

3. In Chapter 13, when was a prison guard taken hostage?

4. On the street, how much time did the Panthers require recruits to read a day?

5. In Chapter 9, when did a friend leave Woodfox a gun in the bathroom at a courtroom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

8. When and where was Woodfox born?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Woodfox discover that leaders should be willing to sacrifice to achieve their goals? What did he discover about sacrifice? Why did he come to believe that sacrifice was essential to bring about change?

Essay Topic 2

Woodfox’s mother was a strong influence in his life. Why was there a time when Woodfox did not respect or listen to his mother? How and why did their relationship change?

Essay Topic 3

Is Woodfox a reliable narrator? Provide evidence from the memoir to support your answer.

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