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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. Where was Woodfox born?

2. How old was Woodfox's mother when they moved back to New Orleans?

3. In Chapter 6, what was Woodfox's bail for car theft?

4. In Chapter 7, on what tier was Woodfox put at the Orleans Parish Prison?

5. In Chapter 7, how much money was Woodfox given when he left Angola?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was solitary confinement like at Angola in Chapter 5?

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

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

6. How did Woodfox describe how his first child was born in Chapter 2?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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